{"id":62960,"date":"2025-03-18T15:20:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T15:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62960"},"modified":"2025-03-18T15:20:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T15:20:02","slug":"pressure-mounts-on-governor-fintiri-to-save-farmer-from-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/18\/pressure-mounts-on-governor-fintiri-to-save-farmer-from-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure Mounts on Governor Fintiri to Save Farmer from Execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Gongola Peoples Forum has called on Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State to grant clemency to Sunday Jackson, a farmer sentenced to death after a Supreme Court ruling.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference in Yola, the forum\u2019s national chairman, Markus Gundiri, described Jackson\u2019s conviction as unjust, arguing that he acted in self-defense when attacked by a herder on his farm.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson, who has spent nearly a decade in prison, was sentenced after the court ruled that he should have fled after disarming his attacker rather than using the weapon to defend himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJackson was unarmed and only fought to save his life. Yet, the law has treated him harshly,\u201d Gundiri said.<\/p>\n<p>The forum urged Governor Fintiri to use his constitutional powers to grant a state pardon, insisting that justice demands mercy in such cases.<\/p>\n<p>With growing public interest in Jackson\u2019s fate, all eyes are now on Governor Fintiri as the final decision rests in his hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The Gongola Peoples Forum has called on Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State to grant clemency to Sunday Jackson, a farmer sentenced to death after a Supreme Court ruling. At a press conference in Yola, the forum\u2019s national chairman, Markus Gundiri, described Jackson\u2019s conviction as unjust, arguing that he acted in self-defense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62962,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62960\/revisions\/62962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}