The police at the Zone 2 command of the Nigeria Police,
Onikan, Lagos State, have arrested two impersonators who allegedly promised to
kill former President Olusegun Obasanjo for the senator representing Ogun East
senatorial district, Buruji Kashamu.
The two suspects had reportedly impersonated one of the
former president's daughters and the other claimed to be an intelligence
officer when they met with Kashamu.
The suspects, identified as Peter Uwakala and Victoria
Alaegbu, were arrested after Kashamu reportedly lodged a complaint at Zone 2 of
the police command.
The suspects had allegedly demanded an unspecified amount
of money from the politician to poison and kill Obasanjo as a way of putting an
end to the feud between the two men.
Tribune Online gathered that the two men met with Kashamu
at an unnamed hotel on the Lagos Island on May 8 and promised to help him solve
the problem between him and the former president.
It was further gathered that the suspects demanded some
money from the Ogun State politician to embark on the mission.
The X Squad team of the Zone 2 police command swung into
action and arrested the two suspects who were subsequently investigated and
found not to have any relationship with the former president
A source at Zone 2 police command, who pleaded anonymity,
said, "The fact of the case was that the complainant alleged in his verbal
complaint that the duo of Peter Uwakala and Victoria Alaegbu falsely
represented themselves as an intelligence officer and daughter to the former
president to him under the pretence that they were going to resolve the
political rift between him and Obasanjo."
The police source added that Victoria introduced herself
as 'Yetunde Obasanjo' and that the two suspects made uncomplimentary remarks
about the former president.
The suspects were said to have claimed that domestic
staff members of the former president, including his cooks, were not happy with
him and were willing to kill him for money.
The suspects were arraigned before Chief Magistrate
Adeola Adedayo at the Igbosere Magistrates' Court, Lagos, on June 5, and were
remanded at Kirikiri Prisons, while the matter was adjourned till July 31,
2015.
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