A Magistrate Court sitting in Akure, Ondo State has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a former deputy governor of Ondo State Agboola Ajayi.
Mr Ajayi is accused of obtaining a brand new Toyota Camry worth N5.4 million by false pretence and stealing in May 2018 from Segun Adetuwo popularly known as Showboy.
His two former aides, Ogunmusi Samuel and Akintoye Olatunji, were arraigned before the court over the vehicle.
In his statement, Mr Ogunmusi claimed that Ajayi instructed him to take Akintoye to Adetuwo to collect the car.
He said he collected the vehicle and left without payment.
One of the charges against them reads, “That you Akintoye Olatunji, Ogunmusi Samuel and others now at large sometime in the month of May 2018 at Automart Akure in the Akure magisterial district did by false pretence and with intent to defraud obtain one brand new Black Toyota Camry XLE valued Five Million, Four Hundred Thousand Thousand Naira (N5,400,000) only property of one Segun Adetuwo and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 1(1) (a)(c) and punishable under section 1(3) of the advance fee fraud and other fraud-related offences Act, laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2006.”
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The prosecutor Emmanuel Tanimowo told the court that Ajayi did not respond to invitation to state his side of the incident.
Counsel to Akintoye Omolegbon Odunsola said he has been making efforts to reach out to Ajayi and Adetuwo to see how the issue could be settled out of court.
Magistrate Taiwo Lebi ordered that Ajayi or his statement be produced in court on November 24, 2023.
On June 21, 2020, Ajayi resigned his membership from the ruling party All Progressives Congress (APC) and defected to the opposition party Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), citing irreconcilable differences between him and his governor, Rotimi Akeredolu.
