Aisha Buhari must compensate, apologize to Adamu — NANS
The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has called on the wife of the president, Aisha Buhari to apologize to Aminu Adam, a university student who was arrested over comment on the first lady.
The students’ association has noted that the first lady needs to compensate the victim for what he was made to pass through.
The chairman of the Ogun State chapter of NANS, Comrade Kehinde Damilola Simeon made this revelation in a statement released on Saturday in Abuja, the country’s capital.
Simeon said the manner Adamu was arrested and detained for close to 2 weeks on the instruction of the president’s wife was a misuse of power.
The Informant247 recalls that the 24 year old Adamu was kept in police net in Dutse over alleged defamatory comment against the wife of the president on Twitter.
The prosecution counsel, Fidelis Ogbobe revealed that the wife of the president, as the mother of the nation, decided to discontinue the case, considering the intervention of will meaning citizens.
NANS has noted that the release of the victim and allowing him to meet the president was not enough, reaffirming that the student need be compensated and apologized to.
The statement partly reads: “We consider that the meeting of the President with Aminu after his release from detention is not enough.
“Madam Aisha Buhari should apologize publicly in at least four daily newspapers. Aminu and his family should be compensated for the inhumane condition the first family had thrown them into in the last few days.
“Democracy as a practiced system in Nigeria is not only anchored on election and wearing of agbada by the leaders. It is dependent on civil liberties such as freedom of speech, rule of law, equity, and every other principle needed for the respect of human economic, social, and political rights.
“These principles, are what we consider as the fundamental basis for demanding the release of the unjustly victimized Nigerian student, Aminu Adamu, who had only said nothing but the truth which is visible to all.
“As a result of solidarity actions of NANS, Civil Societies, and other notable Nigerians, the First Lady, Aisha Buhari, shamefully succumbed to pressure and withdrew the baseless case she had instituted against Aminu.
“This is coming after days of detention, denial of freedom, and assault of all kinds. We need not imagine the mental and physical distress the whole family of Aminu must have been thrown into in the last few days knowing what it means to have a case against the ruling class in Nigeria as a common man.
“This single action of Aisha Buhari has shown us that she is no different from the cabal surrounding her husband which she has always pretended to be exposed to in the past.
“This abuse of power can also be said to be deliberate in sending a message to Nigerians that their party is not deserving of people’s vote,” it stated.
