The National Council of State has granted a state pardon to former governors Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame of Plateau and Taraba respectively, who are serving terms in jail for corruption.

The governors were among 159 prisoners pardoned by the Council at a meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa in Abuja on Thursday.

Among the beneficiaries are a former military general and minister under the Sani Abacha regime, Tajudeen Olanrewaju, an army lieutenant colonel, Akiyode, who was an aide of the former deputy of Mr Abacha, Oladipo Diya; and all the junior officers jailed over the 1990 abortive Gideon Orkar coup.

According to a presidential source, the two former governors were pardoned on health and age grounds.

Mr Nyame, who was governor of Taraba State from 1999 to 2007, was serving a 12-year jail term at the Kuje prison for misappropriation of funds while he was in office.

The Supreme Court upheld his conviction in February 2020.

Mr Dariye, who governed Plateau between 1999 and 2007, was jailed for stealing N2 billion in public funds during his time as Plateau State governor, in 1999 and 2007.

The former governor, elected as the senator representing Plateau Central in the Senate in 2015, was sentenced in June 2018 but still completed his tenure as a senator from jail in June 2019.

In 2021, he led a partly successful appeal at the Supreme Court with a five-man panel of the court headed by Mary Odili, quashing his conviction in respect of criminal misappropriation in a unanimous decision.

The offences he was discharged of only attracted two years’ imprisonment and, so had no impact on his overall number of years of imprisonment.

The apex court upheld the ex-governor’s conviction in respect of criminal breach of trust, which attracted a 10-year jail term.

Adebukola Banjoko of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja had on June 12, 201,8 convicted Mr Dariye and originally sentenced him to 14years’ imprisonment on charges of criminal breach of trust and two years jail terms for criminal misappropriation.

But following his appeal against the judgment, the Court of Appeal in Abuja on November 16, 2018, commuted the 14 years’ jail term to 10.

While the Court of Appeal affirmed his conviction, it held that section 416 (2) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015, prohibited the imposition of a maximum sentence on a first offender, such as the convict.

The former governor had further appealed to the Supreme Court.

Ejembi Emo, a member of the apex court’s panel, noted that Mr Dariye’s appeal “succeeded in part” after quashing his conviction in respect of charges of criminal misappropriation.

The meeting of the Council was attended by a former president and military heads of state, except former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who is in the United States on medical vacation.



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Because they are northerners

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So they can be able to contest again right?

Malory:
Because they are northerners

Among the beneficiaries are a former military general and minister under the Sani Abacha regime, Tajudeen Olanrewaju, an army lieutenant colonel, Akiyode, who was an aide of the former deputy of Mr Abacha, Oladipo Diya; and all the junior officers jailed over the 1990 abortive Gideon Orkar coup

Read, una no go gree

helinues:




Read, una no go gree

Still basically the same thing. Abokis and Afonjas are one and the same

Election is near, you will soon see Imams chanting hallelujah to praise the lord.

Malory:
Still basically the same thing. Abokis and Afonjas are one and the same

Chinedu, oya quickly drop the goal post now now

helinues:


Chinedu, oya quickly drop the goal post now now

Always posting pictures of his mentor and model

Good and great news

Especially those Orkar men ..

Abacha boy..

Them try no be small.

Nice one

helinues:




Read, una no go gree

no mind dat unserious bot nwanimo, na hin be d unserious palace jester of nairaland. He no get nothing good upstairs aswear2gud.

Malory:
Still basically the same thing. Abokis and Afonjas are one and the same

The same way Shagari pardoned Ojukwu

Malory:
Still basically the same thing. Abokis and Afonjas are one and the same

Lame submission

Politicians are the greatest enemies of Nigeria and Nigerians.

The present administration is worst

Other pardons

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/387081-decades-after-buhari-pardons-ambrose-alli-ehanoro-posthumously.html

https://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/nigeria-obasanjo-pardons-former-secessionist-soldiers

https://www.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-40574520090624

https://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2020/06/18/18-june-1982-ojukwus-return-to-nigeria-from-exile/

I love General buhari for fighting corruption to a stand still

State pardon ni Federal power ko

Nyame and Dariye are former governors and Apc members. I'm sure they're going to play key roles in 2023

Malory:
Because they are northerners

And all Northern Christians