The Chairman of the Oyo State Park Management System, Alhaji Mukaila Lamidi, aka Auxiliary, has been charged with conspiracy, willful and unlawful damage of billboards bearing the pictures of the 2023 presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The police arraigned Lamidi before a Magistrate’s Court in Ibadan, presided over by Chief Magistrate Taiwo Oladiran on charges of conspiracy, willful and unlawful damage.
The police prosecutor, AS Sunday Fatola, told the court that Lamidi and others at large on November 13, 2022, around 6.50pm at Igboora in Ibarapa zone of the state, conspired and willfully destroyed billboards bearing the pictures of Tinubu; the APC governorship candidate in the state, Senator Teslim Folarin, and a House of Representatives candidate.
The group was also alleged to have destroyed billboards at Omi-Adio in Ibadan on November 13, 2022 at 11am.
Lamidi, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The Chief Magistrate, Oladiran, granted him bail in the sum of N500,000 with two sureties in like sum.
The matter was adjourned till February 2, 2023 for hearing.
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