The family of 18-year-old Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate, Kingsley Akunemeihe, has pleaded with Nigerian businessman Tony Elumelu to withdraw his complaint following the teenager’s arrest over a post he made that Elumelu had divorced his wife.

Kingsley was arrested on April 18 while returning from his JAMB examination, according to his sister, Ngozi Akunemeihe, who disclosed the development in a video shared online.

Her sister revealed that he has been detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department for more than a week.

He said, “Mr Tony Elumelu got the police to arrest my 18-year-old younger brother, Kingsley Chinanu Akunemeihe.

“He was arrested on Saturday, 18 April. He was coming back from his JAMB exam when he was arrested and never got home,” she said.

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Ngozi stated that the post did not originate from her brother, and he merely reshared it from another account on X.

She added that he deleted the post and issued an apology after other users flagged it as false and defamatory.

“He said he got it from another person’s handle and shared it with others. After sharing it, people called his attention to the fact that the post is fake and defamatory,” she said.

She added that the teenager later realised the post was false and took responsibility by deleting it and issuing an apology on his platform.

“He acknowledged he did something wrong and apologised for it. His apology posts are still there on his handle,” she said.

Despite the apology, Kingsley was arrested about 10 days later. His sister pleaded with Elumelu to consider his age and remorse.

“He has been detained for over a week now. I am begging you, sir, please forgive him. He is just 18. I know people may say he is an adult, but he is still a teenager who acted out of ignorance,” she said.

“He realised that what he did was not okay and he has apologised. I am begging you to withdraw the complaint so that he can come back home,” she added.