Nigeria: How Pardon Was Granted to Alamieyeseigha, Others

14 March 2013

Members of the Council of State who granted the controversial state pardon to former Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, and six others on Tuesday, were caught unawares by the request, THISDAY investigations have revealed.

Sources told THISDAY yesterday that the request for clemency, which has continued to attract condemnations nationwide, took several members of the Council of State unawares as they were not availed of the memo requesting the pardon for Alamieyeseigha, to whom President Goodluck Jonathan was deputy during his tenure in Bayelsa State, until they were seated at the meeting.

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