Former media aide to the late President Muhammadu Buhari, Bashir Ahmad, has faulted Abia State Governor Alex Otti for visiting President Bola Tinubu over the imprisonment of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
Ahmad argued that the president is not part of the judiciary and cannot intervene in judicial decisions, stressing that justice cannot be discussed or negotiated in private meetings.
Governor Otti had on Wednesday visited Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, in connection with Kanu’s life imprisonment conviction.
Kanu is currently serving his sentence at the Sokoto Custodial Centre following his conviction by Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja.
Reacting in a post on X, Ahmad wrote: “President Tinubu is not a court of law and certainly not the judiciary. The best assistance Governor Otti can offer his convicted brother is to advise him to remain a law-abiding prisoner for now and seek redress through the proper legal channels. If there are grounds for appeal, let them be taken to the upper courts. Nigeria is governed by law. Justice is not negotiated in private meetings, nor reversed by presidential courtesy. The courtroom remains the only place where convictions are tested and overturned.”
