Alhaji Mukaila Lamidi, popularly known as Auxiliary has been arraigned before a Chief Magistrate’s Court in Ibadan for infringement of rights.
The Oyo state motor park chairman was arraigned in court for destroying Tinubu’s posters in Ibadan the Oyo state capital.
The police arraigned him before the court presided over by Chief Magistrate Taiwo Oladiran on charges of conspiracy, wilful 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 the 2023 presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; the party’s governorship candidate in the state, Senator Teslim Folarin, and a House of Representatives candidate.
Auxillary’s group was also alleged to have destroyed destroyed billboards at Omi-Adio and persons regarded as opposition in the state on November 13, 2022 .
Auxilliary pleaded not guilty to the charges levelled against him and his group.
The Chief Magistrate, Oladiran, granted him bail in the sum of N500,000 with two sureties in like sum.
The magistrate then adjourned the case till February 2 2023 to resume hearing on the matter.