{"id":77722,"date":"2025-10-29T16:50:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77722"},"modified":"2025-10-29T16:50:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:50:24","slug":"tinubu-revokes-maryam-sandas-pardon-reduces-sentence-to-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/29\/tinubu-revokes-maryam-sandas-pardon-reduces-sentence-to-12-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Revokes Maryam Sanda\u2019s Pardon, Reduces Sentence to 12 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has withdrawn the presidential pardon earlier granted to Maryam Sanda, convicted in 2020 for killing her husband, Bilyaminu Bello.<\/p>\n<p>The revocation, announced Wednesday through a government gazette signed by Presidential Adviser Bayo Onanuga, follows widespread public criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu replaced the full pardon with a 12-year prison term, citing \u201ccompassionate considerations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having served six years and eight months at the Suleja Correctional Centre, Sanda is now expected to complete the remaining six years.<\/p>\n<p>The reversal marks a major policy shift amid national outrage over what many Nigerians described as a blow to justice in one of the country\u2019s most publicized homicide cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal &nbsp; President Bola Tinubu has withdrawn the presidential pardon earlier granted to Maryam Sanda, convicted in 2020 for killing her husband, Bilyaminu Bello. The revocation, announced Wednesday through a government gazette signed by Presidential Adviser Bayo Onanuga, follows widespread public criticism. Tinubu replaced the full pardon with a 12-year prison term, citing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77722","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77724,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77722\/revisions\/77724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}