President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has granted presidential pardon and clemency to 175 persons.
The pardon followed the endorsement of recommendations from the National Council of State, which met on Thursday, October 9, in Abuja.
According to a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the President granted posthumous pardons to late Major General Mamman Jiya Vatsa and nationalist, Herbert Macaulay. He also pardoned former lawmaker Farouk Lawan and three others — Mrs. Anastasia Daniel Nwaobia, Barrister Hussaini Umar, and Ayinla Saadu Alanamu — after they were found to have demonstrated remorse and readiness to reintegrate into society.
Vatsa, a poet and former military officer, was executed in 1986 after being convicted of treason. He received the posthumous pardon nearly four decades after his de@th.
