Post by ANISU ADEBANJI (@anisu_adebanji)

🔴Do you know that to pull off his escape, former Bayelsa Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha reportedly wore a dress, wig & makeup to blend in as a woman?

✅Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha (popularly known as DSP Alamieyeseigha), former Governor of Bayelsa State (1999–2005), pulled off one of Nigeria’s most dramatic political escapes.

✅In September 2005, while still serving as governor, he was arrested in London by the Metropolitan Police on money-laundering charges.

✅Officers found about £1 million in cash in his home, with a total of roughly £1.8 million linked to him in cash and accounts, plus several London properties valued in the millions.

✅While on bail in the UK, he jumped bail in November 2005. Reports (widely circulated at the time) said he disguised himself as a woman, wearing female clothing to flee the country, travelling via Eurostar to France, then to Cameroon & eventually back to Nigeria by boat.

✅He denied the “dressed as a woman” claim, but the story became legendary.

✅On his return, he was impeached by the Bayelsa State House of Assembly in December 2005, losing his immunity.

✅In July 2007, he pleaded guilty before a Nigerian court to six counts of corruption & money laundering.

✅He was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment on each count (to run concurrently). Because of time already spent in custody, his actual time served was relatively short.

✅He was later granted a presidential pardon by his former deputy, then-President Goodluck Jonathan, in 2013.

🔴Alamieyeseigha died on 10 October 2015 in Port Harcourt at the age of 62.

🔴vanity upon vanity

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