Two men namely Rilwan Jamiu and Balogun Oyewole were remanded at Kirikiri Prisons for allegedly impersonating Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State in a text message and attempting to commit fifty million naira fraud

Jamiu and Oyewole who are facing a three-count charge bordering on attempting to commit a felony and obtaining money by false pretences at an Ikeja High Court, however denied the charges.

Prosecutor Adebayo Haroun said the duo committed the offences on last year February ten, at Block eleven, State Treasury Office, Ministry of Finance, Government Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja.

Haroun said the men cloned Ambode’s Globacom telephone number in a text message to the Accountant General of Lagos State, Abimbola Umar.

He said the defendants had in the text message demanded fifty million naira to be transferred by Umar into a company account.

Umar, in her statement to the authorities said on the said day she received a text message, which she
initially thought the message was from His Excellency, the Governor of Lagos state, because the name with which she saved his number appeared in her inbox.

According to the message reads, `AG, urgently transfer N50m to Dayder Limited account number 002806988 Keystone Bank. We will talk later, H.E.

She said she became suspicious because His Excellency does not send text messages for any payment, he normally calls his office when the need arises.

“This text message also looked strange because His Excellency would not end his message with H.E nor start with AG.

“This is not his pattern, I put a call to the Governor and he immediately asked me to take the phone to the security to investigate the text since the message did not come from him.”

Justice Sedoten Ogunsanya adjourned the case until November seventeen for trial.