…set to get bail tomorrow; supporters keep
vigil at Kano prison
By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North
After spending 72 hours with his two sons in
Kano Central Prison, immediate past governor
of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, has imputed
political motives to his incarceration.
According to the former governor, he is
being persecuted by those who feel that they
would not be able to actualise their
presidential ambition with him around the
political arena.
Lamido, who spoke exclusively to Sunday
Vanguard through his media aide, Umar Kyari,
yesterday, drew the attention of Nigerians and
the international community to the attempt
being made by those he called “my political
enemies” to silence him using the
instrumentality of the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Lamido pointed out that it was clear from the
outset that there was a grand design to put
him away in prison for a long time under the
guise of money laundering and sundry charges
so as to pave the way for his political enemies
to have their way.
The former governor, whose many supporters
relocated to the Kano Central Prison where they
kept vigil over him and his two sons, said he
was determined to prove to Nigerians that he
was innocent but was merely being witch-
hunted by those who feel threatened by his
rising political profile.
Lamido’s spokesman said: “This current effort
to frame and denigrate the former governor of
Jigawa State with a view to rubbishing his high
performance in office will come to naught at the
end of the day.
“Lamido remains nothing but a scion of
accountability and integrity who has always
fought on the side of the people, particularly the
downtrodden and the vulnerable, since he came
into the national political scene.
“He remains unshaken over the trumped-up
charges slammed on him by the EFCC knowing
that he has not committed any offense to
warrant being thrown into the prison over a
bailable offense.
“But the refusal by his traducers to grant him
and his sons bail when others charged same
day and time for even more grievous offences
were admitted to bail speaks volume of the
intention and mindset of those who are after
him.
“Nonetheless, Sule Lamido strongly believes
that, after being imprisoned several times all in
a bid to pave the way for sustained democracy
in Nigeria, the current effort by the EFCC and
others to humiliate him and his family over the
so-called money laundering charges will not
break his resolve to continue to fight on the
side of the people.
“It is Lamido’s strong belief that having not
committed any offense against the state to
warrant being sent to prison, he and his two
sons will be freed and vindicated against the
wicked plot of their adversaries”.
Meanwhile, Lamido is said to have been
overwhelmed by the large number of friends
and well wishers from across Nigeria who have
thronged the prison to show solidarity with him
and his two sons.
A close source at the prison told Sunday
Vanguard that Lamido was jolted by the show
of love and solidarity that he shed what the
source described as “tears of joy” on Friday.
The former governor reportedly came out on
Friday afternoon in one of his best attires to the
office of the prison controller with a view to
getting close to all those who had thronged the
prison yard to see him.
Sunday Vanguard learnt last night that Lamido
and sons were likely to be admitted to bail
tomorrow (Monday) as a vacation judge was
most likely to hear their bail application on that
day.
A source said Lamido’s associates had already
prepared in many ways to meet whatever
conditions the judge might stipulate for their
release from prison pending the hearing of the
case in September.
Lamido and his two sons, according to the
charge sheet of the EFCC after what the anti-
graft agency described as a thorough
investigation, alleged during the arraignment of
the accused persons at a Federal High Court
sitting in Kano, that they laundered N1.35
billion.
They were slammed with a 28-count charge
bordering on criminal breach of trust.
The trial judge, Justice Evelyn Anyadike,
adjourned the case till September 28 while
ordering that the suspects be remanded in Kano
Prison.
Anyadike, however, ruled that the case will be
handed over to a vacation judge to listen to the
accused persons bail application while the
judiciary goes on vacation today.vanguard

Lol

FTC tins

NONSENSE



Londongal u such a big learner, u cant even copy well and yet u da furst to komment...


*spit*

Buhari seems to kick off his anti corruption campaign with you.

CUM4WHAT:
NONSENSE



Londongal u such a big learner, u cant even copy well and yet u da furst to komment...


*spit*

Oga whats your problem?

londongal03:
Oga whats your problem?

madam i thief your bf ni??

Person wey we wan roast wey dey take palm oil rub body, Mr Man this is just the begining, you're saying you're innocent, have you forgotten that you've been indicted from Jonathan days? don't worry, you'll be granted 700million bail tomorrow

CUM4WHAT:
madam i thief your bf ni??

lol

Did you steal money or not?

If you do not have any skeleton in.your cupboard, there is nothing they can do to rope you.

You do not throw stone, when you are living in a glass house

In as much as I know that I am pro-PDP I want him to stay in prison so that this EFCC push will not get cold because what goes around comes around and will soon enter APC camp and ordinary Nigerians will be better off for it at the end of the day.

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Lamido stole Jigawa money so its appropriate that he should face the law, I'm enjoying all these drama but I will not trust this anti corruption fight if Amaechi and Theodore orji continues to walk around as free men

Smh which yeye rising political profile? Just hope even if you get bail, justice is served still