Minister of Sport had refund Mikel $ 4,000

There was a report
that Mikel  rescued Nigerian Olympic team from missing their flight
to Salvador by spending $4,000 when they couldn't pay their
hotel bills in Sao Paulo.

The team was held to ransom until Mikel came to their rescue.

A source said "We just arrived Salvador now from Sao Paolo. We

nearly missed our flight because
of unpaid bills in the hotel. The
hotel held us to ransom".

The problem was that all the additional officials in Brazil are
the responsibility of the Nigeria
Football Federation, who said
they will pay for them, but they
did not pay for them again.
When a call was put across to the
honourable minister of youths
and sports, he said that the bill
should be on him but that his
credit card didn't work. "So, the
hotel bills of these other officials,
about five of them cost the sum
of over $4,000. They held us
hostage for more than one hour
and we nearly missed our flight.
It was Mikel (Obi) who rescued
us by paying the money. I can tell
you honestly speaking that this
incident is not the fault of the
minister because the minister
listed the people to be
accommodated which were 18
players and seven officials."

The Minister of Sport had repotedly refund the money to Mikel.