BREAKING: Adamawa businessman bags 30-month jail term for calling Gov Fintiri ‘Father of all thieves’

A Numan-based businessman, Ali Yakubu Numan, has bagged a two-and-a-half-year jail term for calling Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri ‘Father of all thieves.’

Numan was sentenced on Wednesday to two-year jail term with option of N50,000 fine for using abusive language against Fintiri. He was also sentenced to six-month imprisonment without option of fine for disturbance of public peace. businessman, who described Governor Fintiri as ‘A thief and father of thieves,’ was remanded in prison custody following his arraignment by the Attorney General of Adamawa State for defamation.

The businessman, who described Governor Fintiri as ‘A thief and father of thieves,’ was remanded in prison custody following his arraignment by the Attorney General of Adamawa State for defamation.

Numan, had on the 11th, 12th, 13th, 17th, 20th and 29th July, 2021, wrote and published insulting statements in Hausa and Fulfulde languages on his Facebook page against the Governor.

He described Governor Fintiri in the publication as a thief and father of all thieves in Nigeria who stole indomie, spaghetti and hundreds of billions from state coffers.