Self-proclaimed UK based Nigerian millionaire who paraded wealth over internet jailed for attempting to run over creditor

A self-proclaimed self-made millionaire who has paraded his wealth all over the internet has been jailed for attempting to run over his creditor.

Now serial motoring offender Elijah Oyefeso ,tried to mow down the creditor with his car.

The 23-year-old, who showed off a swanky Chilworth home and luxury cars in an online video, has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison.

According to Mailonline, a Southampton Crown Court heard that on November 21, 2016 Oyefeso got behind the wheel of a Toyota Prius and attempted to run over former soldier Dennis Ofosu in Millbrook Road West, Southampton.

Prosecuting, Richard Martin told the court that Mr Ofosu had loaned money to Oyefeso so the defendant could purchase a new Land Rover.

 Oyefeso appears in an online video in which he appears to buy a Rolls Royce for his mother – turning up at the dealership dressed in a cream towel bathrobe.

Strangely the blue Silver Wraith also appears as his own car in another video in which he gives viewers a tour of his luxury pad.

The Wraith is parked in the drive alongside his “everyday” cars – a Range Rover and a Toyota Prius.

During the tour of his home we see his king size bed “for the king” and inside his surprisingly small wardrobe stocked with a handful of T-shirts and one suit.

At the end of the video he goes ‘scouting’ for a jet plane and arrives at an airfield where poses on the bonnet of his Roller with an aircraft in the background.

In the past Oyefeso has claimed to earn up to £70,000 a month, sometimes by only working an hour per day.

His most extravagant appearance was on Channel 4’s Rich Kids Go Shopping – which saw him make £1,000 in 15 minutes.

Oyefeso ran a trading company called DCT (which stands for Dreams Come True) and made his money in binary trading – a form of stockbroking in which the investor bets on whether the share price of a company will go up or down over a given period – which can be as short as a minute.

Despite Oyefeso’s showy lifestyle, his own defence counsel Jamie Gammon told the Southampton court at the sentencing hearing: 

“He makes a number of claims about his wealth but I have seen no evidence of this.
“Clearly if he had this money he could have written a cheque to the victim.”

Mitigating, Mr Gammon told the court Oyefeso’s actions were not those of an arrogant man, but “an immature one”.

The court had heard that when the victim asked for his money back outside Goals Football Centre, in Millbrook, Oyefeso got in his car.

Prosecuting, Richard Martin said: “The defendant said ‘If you were in London I would kill you’.
“Oyefeso’s friends said to him ‘Why don’t you get rid of this waste man?’.”

He then drove into the victim who ended up on the bonnet of the car.

The victim grabbed on to the windscreen wipers.“Oyefeso said ‘I told you I would kill you’ and his friends told him to stop.“He put the windscreen wipers on and the victim ended up on the grass.”

Oyefeso, who had represented himself at his trial, was found guilty of dangerous driving by a jury in August.

Although Mr Ofosu suffered only minor injuries, Judge Christopher Parker QC condemned Oyefeso’s actions.