UPDATE: AIT says founder Dokpesi has been released after arrest in London

Hours after his arrest at the London Heathrow Airport on Sunday, founder of DAAR Communications Limited, Raymond Dokpesi, has been released.

The management of African Independent Television (AIT) in a statement on Monday that the media mogul was released after a short delay.

“Dokpesi arrived via Frankfurt from Abuja on a Lufthansa airlines flight and was invited off the plane before other passengers were disembarked,” the management of the television station said in the statement.

“Dokpesi was delayed at the airport for some hours before his passport was stamped and he was cleared by British Immigration officials for entry into the country.”

The statement added that the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain made the London trip following the invitation of Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the party by the British government to share perspectives on issues around the next month’s presidential election in the country.

Dokpesi is the deputy director-general, of the technical and systems of the PDP presidential campaign council.