A Yola Chief Magistrate Court II has convicted and sentenced a businessman, Ali Yakubu Numan, to 30 months in prison for using abusive words on Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri.
Numan was sentenced with an option of N50,000 fine for using abusive language against Fintiri.
He was also sentenced to six-month imprisonment without an option of a fine for disturbance of public peace.
The business had earlier been remanded in prison custody, following his arraignment by the Attorney General of Adamawa State, for describing Fintiri ‘a thief and father of all thieves,’
Numan had, on the11th, 12th, 13th, 17th, 20th and 29th July 2021, written and published insulting statements in Hausa and Fulfulde languages on his Facebook page against the governor.
He described Fintiri in the publication as “a thief and father of all thieves in Nigeria” who stole Indomie, spaghetti and hundreds of billions of naira from state coffers.
In his ruling, Magistrate Japhet Basani said the court arrived at the verdict after it found the man guilty of the two charges brought against him by the prosecution.
