Mr Emekeme Joseph popularly known as Semikolo, the Chairman of Covenant Suites a hotel chain is dead.
Joseph who is a Deacon of Winner’s Chapel fell gravely ill after his sons assaulted him, an family source revealed.
It was alleged that the two sons who graduated from Covenant University caught their father with a side chick and demanded a million naira bribe or they’ll inform their mom who was at the time holidaying in the United States.
According to an inside source, the father called off their bluff and refused to give them the one million naira.
“And true to their threat, they reported the sleazy affair to their mother.
“The next day the father dropped by at the Coca Cola depot of the wife and when the sons saw him, they hounded him out of the place”
“He angrily went home and seized the keys of the cars of the sons. They were so angry and descended on him with blows and kicks.
“He called the police and the boys broke the head of one of the police officers.
“The boys were arrested and the father was rushed to the hospital.
“The condition of the father was deteriorating quickly and he was referred to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital where he was fighting for his life,” the source said.
The wife quickly flew back to the country and facilitated the release of the sons from the police custody and strangely discharged the husband against doctor’s advise from UBTH where he was in a coma.
“She brought him home, and no long, he died”.