Traditional rulers from the northern part of the country, who met in Kaduna on Tuesday, have denied meeting over the death sentence passed on the former Chief Security Officer to late Gen. Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, by a Lagos High Court.

The emirs said on Thursday that there was no iota of truth in the insinuation that they met to deliberate on the conviction of Al-Mustapha for the murder of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola.

It will be recalled that a Lagos High Court had sentenced Al-Mustapha and Lateef Shofolahan to death for the murder of Kudirat, who was the wife of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Chief Moshood Abiola.

The Emirs, who reacted through the Emir of Kazaure, Dr. Najib Hussaini Adamu, debunked the insinuations in a section of the media that they met over the plight of Al-Mustapha.

He described the insinuation as “crude, false and uncharitable.”

In a statement in Abuja, Adamu confirmed that the emirs actually met in Kaduna, but insisted that the meeting had nothing to do with the conviction of Al-Mustapha.

He said the Kaduna meeting had been fixed several days before the court delivered its judgment on Al-Mustapha.

He explained that the meeting was called to deliberate on the frequent and disturbing crises in the northern part of the country.

He said, “In the first instance, this meeting was called 10 days before the judgment was given. The day the court convicted him was the day of the arrival of the Emirs and Chiefs. How could the issue be on our agenda?”

nasty45:

Na ly jor.wu de wan deceive.so it's only d northern crisis that they wr discussin for 5hrs?just one item on the agenda.wt of other items?silly MALLAMS

bulksms247:

Dis goats with no brains, do de think they can deceive us. Am waiting 2 hear de last chapter of the Almustapha film show, if he goes free. Then everyone should consider crime cause it pays

beackyBenneth:

Presidential pardon is waiting for him or have you forgotting that we are in Nigeria again. abeg make i pass joooo

mukina2:

http://www.punchng.com/news/emirs-deny-meeting-over-al-mustapha/

Me_Aboki:

Why not, after-all that would amount to reciprocity, I seem to recall one Ojukwu being pardoned by a Shagari and also one Aremu being plucked from the gates of from hell straight to Aso Rock by an IBB, the latter being rejected by his own ppl but now you wouldn't have guessed otherwise.

Continue with your conspiracy theories, it won't shake us.

If Mustapha was guilty so be it; but by all indications he didn't get a fair trial, the primary witness against him, sgt Rogers, later withdrew his evidence claiming it was forced upon him under duress; yet that wasn't enough because those keen on his conviction want him guilty by all means with or without convincing evidence.

nagoma:

Nigeria is probably the most forgiving country in the World,
On The 11th September 1963 the Court in Lagos under the leadership of Justice Sowemimo concluded the trial of Chief Obafemi Awolowo and others for their conspiracy to remove the democratic government of an independent Nigeria by force. Awolowo was found guilty.
Before the sentence was read by Justice Sowemimo, Chief Awolowo in his speech complained that ( 1) that the trial took too long ( a few weeks - in his own words) . Classical Awo, he said he had rendered valuable service to Nigeria for 27 years and pointed out his fight against feudal system in the north, he was concerned that " the country would lose the invaluable service he would render within the period of his prison service". Hear the omnipotent Awo!

Justice Sowemimo before passing the sentence said a few words addressing Chief Awolowo which included   " you mention about delay in giving judgement, but I wish you were in my position and had to read some of these things ; 800 pages of evidence and notes of submission 600 pages. The judge also said to Awo " I do not see what useful purpose a sentence of inimprisonmentill do to you - but to get yourself involved in this is enough shame , but this is a political crime, " chief Awolowo was sentenced on 3 counts 1) treasonable felony contrary to section41(b) of the criminal code -10 years imprisonment with hard labour. 2ndNDount  conspiracy to commit felony 5 years in prison I.H.L. 3rd count Conspiracy to effect unlawful purpose 2 years in prison and the sentences were to run concurrently. All of us know that Awolowo was let out of Prison pardoned and made a Minister of the federal republic by Gowon in 1966. I will if there is a need go on to talk about , the person given to Gowon and to Obasanjo for a very similar offences by Shagari and abdussalam Abubakar respectively and also talk about the biggest person given by Shagari to Ojukwu after a rebellion and plunging the nation into war. Ojukwu also became a politician and his party candidature to be a president of Nigeria was tolerated. We are watching to see a different scenario - just because this time the leading  criminal ( as decided by the lagoLagosrt was not Yoruba and therefore sympathy cannot be expected.

nagoma:

Al - Mustapha's judicial lynching is a transferred aggression for Abacha's crime and since Abacha was killed by the friends of Nadeco and obasanjo brought out from prison anointed and crowned as the president of Nigeria , one would think that considerable regret has been shown on behalf of the military who annulled Abiola's election and also the appeasement of the those people who believed they were the ones aggrieved, all these for peace. But they believe that all of us non S/westerners who went out to line up in the option A4 sun  and actually cast our vote for Abiola and against Tofa were not Sicerely in our deception and action and must have all been involved in annulling the election of a great Nigerian whom they saw as a Yoruba son only and not the son of other Nigerians.
I do not see the logic of saying that if the premier of western region or a military Head of State or a rebel leader and warlord commit heinous political crime they can be pardoned but if a serving major carried out a politically motivated order leading a criminal act he cannot be forgiven , especially if he had people or a person from another tribe also working with him!! This argument is simply hilarious