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The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission recently began the prosecution of a former Kogi Central Senatorial
candidate, Abdulazeez Bello, over alleged impersonation.
Bello is being prosecuted before
Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo of an Ikeja High Court for allegedly impersonating
the Director of Operations of the EFCC, Mr. Olaolu Adegbite.
SHOWBIZPLUS gathered that the anti-graft agency alleged that
Bello impersonated Adegbite with the intention of defrauding Mrs. Mercy Orji,
wife of Gov. Theodore Orji of Abia.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports
that the 50-year-old defendant is facing a two-count charge of conspiracy to
obtain money by false pretence and forgery.
During Tuesday’s proceedings, the
EFCC called its first witness, Mr. Chucks Offor, to testify against the
defendant.
Offor, Special Assistant to the wife
of the Governor on Protocol, was led in evidence by the EFCC counsel, Mr. Toyin
Owodunni.
The witness told the court how Bello
conspired with another aide of her boss, Nelson Ndukwe (now at large), to
commit the offence.
He said Ndukwe called him on Jan.27,
2013 with an unregistered number, claiming that he was being detained by the
EFCC for an unknown offence.
Offor said his colleague told him
that a certain number was going to call him and that he should cooperate with
the caller, so that the matter could be resolved.
According to him, the defendant
later called him, posing as Adegbite and demanded that he should come to
Sheraton Hotel in Ikeja for settlement.
The witness said he went to the
hotel with an officer of the State Security Service who apprehended Bello,
while negotiations were going on for Ndukwe’s release.
The matter was adjourned till May
26, for continuation of trial.
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