MDC Alliance aspiring Member of Parliament for Goromonzi West, Luke Tamborinyoka, has appeared in court charged with defacing campaign posters of a rival.

Tamborinyoka, 46, appeared before a Harare magistrate on Monday accused of breaching the Electoral Act.

Tamborinyoka, until recently the spokesperson for MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, was not asked to plead and was remanded out of custody on free bail by magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa.

Tamborinyoka, who is jointly charged with Tapiwa Murima, 39, will be back in court on Wednesday.

Prosecutors say on June 22 this year, one Nyasha Murove pasted campaign posters for Taurai Nhamburo – also of the MDC Alliance – at a public toilet at Chirodzero business centre in Domboshawa.

Tamborinyoka and Murima, it is alleged, were then seen on June 25 pasting Tamborinyoka’s political campaigning posters on top of Nhamburo’s posters.

Murove, who has been denounced by the MDC Alliance as an unofficial candidate for the July 30 elections but refused to withdraw his nomination, made a police report.

Police recovered four campaign posters for Tamborinyoka that were pasted on top of Nhamburo’s posters as exhibits.

The two are being represented by Bosswell Chideme.

Ropafadzo Botsh appeared for the State.