Man,45, Docked Over Alleged Impersonation During Election

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Man,45, Docked Over Alleged Impersonation During Election

A 45-year-old man, Lukuman Ajibola, was on Thursday in Lagos docked at an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court for alleged impersonation.

The accused, of no fixed address, is facing a charge of impersonating as an agent of the Action Alliance (AA) political party during last Saturday’s polls.

The prosecutor, Insp. Moses Okuiomose, had earlier told the court that the accused committed the offence on March 30, at Awori College Collation Centre, Ojo, a suburb of Lagos.
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Okuiomose said that security operatives attached to the election results’ collation centre arrested the accused after they had discovered that Ajibola had impersonated as an agent of the Action Alliance party there.

The prosecutor said that the offence contravened Section 378 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Section 378(1) says that any person who, with intent to defraud another, falsely represents himself to be some other person, living or dead, is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for three years.

Ajibola , however, denied the charge.
Magistrate O.O. Olatunji granted the accused bail in the sum of N100,000 with two sureties in like sum.

He then adjourned the case till May, 6 for mention. (NAN)