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Nigeria’s first lady, Aisha Buhari, is billed to testify against Aminu Adamu, a student of the Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State, for allegedly defaming her.

Mr Adamu, 24, was alleged to have published a defamatory statement on his Twitter handle against Mrs Buhari.

In the allegedly offending tweet, Mr Adamu, who is a final year student studying Environmental Management, posted a rotund picture of the first lady with a caption in Hausa saying, “Mama is feeding fat on poor people’s money.”

The tweet was posted on 8 June but Mr Adamu, trailed by a team of detectives, was arrested in Dutse, North-West Nigeria, on 18 November and whisked to Abuja.

After nearly two weeks in detention, Mr Adamu was arraigned on Tuesday before a judge, Yusuf Halilu, of the Federal Capital Territory High Court at Maitama, where he pleaded not guilty and was remanded at Suleja prison in Niger State.

In the one-count charge marked: CR/89/2022, and dated 23 November, the police say Mr Adamu “between May and June 2022 within the jurisdiction of this court, did intentionally open a Twitter handle with the name …Catalyst and screenshot the photograph of her Excellency Hajia Aisha Buhari and wrote on it in Hausa language… roughly translated to English language to mean ‘Mama has embezzled monies meant for the poor to satisfaction’ and posted same on your above Twitter handle.. knowing same to be false and capable of affecting her reputation.”

The police said the alleged offence bordering on defamation and cyberstalking, contravened Section 391 of the Penal Code.

In a list of witnesses attached to the proof of evidence filed by the police, seen by TIMES on Wednesday night, Mrs Buhari, the nominal complainant, is one of the five witnesses assembled by the prosecution to establish the case against Mr Adamu.

Another witness is Festus Jossiah, one of the investigators that tracked and arrested the defendant.

Abdulsalam Zakari, Yahaya Njayo and Haliru Tahir, all police officers, are the other proposed prosecution witnesses lined up against the defendant.

Court filings signed by James Idachaba, a lawyer at the FCT police legal department in Abuja, listed Mr Adamu’s statement, a print out of the alleged defamatory post and an IPhone belonging to the defendant, as exhibits.

How police tracker team arrested Mr Adamu
Fresh details have also emerged on how Mr Adamu was arrested.

Festus Josiah, a police detective attached to the ‘Anti Vice Section A’ in Mararaba, Nasarawa State, in his statement filed as part of the prosecution’s proof of evidence, disclosed that he was ed by Mrs Buhari’s Aide De Camp (ADC), Usman Shugaba, concerning the defendant’s tweet.

Mr Josiah said he works with the office of the first lady as a phone “tracker.”

He revealed that his team travelled to Dutse, the Jigawa State capital, on a Monday and trailed Mr Adamu for three days before they tracked him down.

“When we got his phone, an Iphone 7, we saw the Twitter on the phone. We also saw the (alleged offending) post,” Mr Josiah disclosed in his statement dated 19 November.

He said the undergraduate was brought to the FCT State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID).

According to court filings, Mr Adamu’s confiscated phone has been sent to the Terrorism Investigation Branch, Force Intelligence Bureau in Abuja “for analysis” and “evidential value.”


Defendant seeks bail

Meanwhile, Mr Adamu has urged the court to grant him bail.

In a bail applicatiob dated 25 November, Mr Adamu’s lawyer, Kingsley Agu, sought an order itting his client to bail pending the determination of the suit.

He based his application on the grounds that defendant had never been charged for any crime.

Mr Agu said defendant was treating a “3rd degree fire burn on his left arm and has been in severe pains his arrest and detention…”

The defence lawyer revealed that his client was “seized on 18 November, 2022, by operatives of the SSS before he was handed over to the nominal complainant (Mrs Buhari),” fuelling speculations amongst Nigerians that the first lady tortured Mr Adamu.

The judge adjourned the case until 30 January for the hearing of the defendant’s bail request.

But the defendant is said to be having an examination on 5 December.

There have been calls from civil society organisations like the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) North-west chapter, for Mr Adamu’s release.

The students union gave a two-day ultimatum to Mrs Buhari to ‘release’ Mr Adamu unconditionally.

A human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, in a Facebook post, described Mrs Buhari’s conduct as “evil and a gross abuse of power.

https://www.timesng.com/news/568408-alleged-defamatory-tweet-aisha-buhari-to-testify-against-university-student.html

Madam, release the guy, simple.

In another news, I learnt the boy ed Deborah's killers in one of his tweets.

I rest my case.

What I know is "Nigeria will be free". Very soon

Defamation of character! Hope it will be lesson to most people. The internet is not really anonymous.

In other news, this is the same Aminu celebrating the death of Deborah. The internet never forgets.

benuejosh:
Defamation of character! Hope it will be lesson to most people. The internet is not really anonymous.

He is a cyberbully raised badly by irresponsible parents. If he had not been unmasked and jailed, he would by now be preying on another victim.

Just like I stated in this thread titled
Thank You Aisha Buhari, Champion Of Victims Of Cyberbullies
https://nairaland.macsoftware.info/7458576/thank-aisha-buhari-champion-victims

Cyberbullies are not ghosts and they are not above the law.

Many victims of cyberbullies suffered and died from toxic contents cyberbullies raised by irresponsible parents post on the social media but because the victims lack the resources and power to hold these cyberbullies to , the cyberbullies commit crime and move on to their next victim.

Thank God for Mrs Aisha Buhari, the cyberbully now held in court to defend himself would have moved on to another victim.
Mrs Aisha Buhari stood up for victims of cyberbullies and may God bless her.


The NA must look at the social media bill once again. The British Parliament is already working on their own social media bill and CNN is on a campaign to hold cyberbullies to . Nigeria can not be left behind.

Social media should not be a haven for cyber bullies and we can not have different rules for criminals offline and online.

A cyberbully is not a Ghost. Report the cyberbully today. States and FG must release a toll free line to report cyberbullies and NCC must provide their ed GSM numbers while NIN and DSS keep a public of cyberbullies like LASG has for rapists.

Platforms earning profit from the activities of cyberbullies and failing to remove toxic contents must be penalized and prosecuted.

Curriculum must criminalize cyberbullies same way we currently do to offline bullies.

Aisha Buhari just championed the causes of victims of cyberbullies. She is a rare gem. May God bless her and her family.

Every cyberbully must be held to , arrested and prosecuted. Our cyberspace must be kept free of cyberbullies.

God bless Aisha Buhari.
God bless Nigeria.
May God continue to expose and punish all cyberbullies and grant justice to their victims.
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But he did not lie. When she appears in court what will her testimony be. Thought she was better/different.

Who cares about what they do there? The boy ed the murder of Deborah, Aisha is busy punching his face now. Karma is a tireless b!tch!

We're going to see the shepopotamus in person. By then we'd know if she's bloated, swollen or fat as a cow at the expense of the starving masses.

I wish GEJ, & PEJ pressed charges against those who insulted them during their time, we could have prevented cyber bullying

Let's blame GEJ for the fact that he didn't fight those who insulted him badly during his istration because if he had fought & jailed them, cyber bully would have left the internet completely

Shame.

Look at what a whole first Lady has reduced herself to.

I'm sure she won't even be there. She will only send a representative.

So jobless is she that she now devotes her time to listen to small small gossips and whispers.

Very lazy woman that ordinary kick she fell down broke an ankle. Talk about a broiler chicken.

No wonder her husband said she is only fit for the kitchen and the other room for fun and procreation purposes only.

When the gods want to ruin a person ... They first make them MAD.


But did the boy lie? Make sss come carry me too o... I need to blow one way or another.

This woman is making a hero out of him but she just can't see it.

Modified: the boy deserve to be tutures for what he posted about that girl that was murdered ... I don't Aisha's use of power but I don't the useless boy too .

Having been in the know that he ed Deborah's killing. I take a bow.

I stand with Aisha Buhari'..

That dude over stepped the limits of decency

The onus is on the foolish boy to proof that she stole money.

This woman serious.

But they can't track terrorists

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The idiot that celebrated Deborah's killing.
I have no sympathy for terrorist.

In the other thread where I was advocating for his release, someone asked me not to pity Northerners that they would even vote Buhari for third term if possible and I was thinking his advice doesn't make sense.

After finding out that this terrorist ed Deborah's killing, I pray he gets killed in captivity. I regret ing him initially.

lol

And you wonder why people are leaving decent jobs to start from scratch in the UK.

Just imagine a British bloke being picked up by Scotland Yard because he posted SOMETHING/ANYTHING (that is not life threatening of course) about the wife of the British prime minster

It’s just madness

And to think you have Nigerians under this thread commending this just shows how much of a problem the average Nigerian is to Nigeria

Mad people with Stockholm syndrome

The statement really entered her well and she was really pained. Another silly avenue for her lawyers to cash out well. What a joke of a country!. But the majority of northern youths are hypocrites and always evil. He ed the killing of Deborah, So let the boy enjoy his newly found prison mansion with his fellow terrorists.

Two faced woman that can swallow loot but can not tolerate insults coming with the loot

Very good. Let the court do their work.

The bandit mocked Deborah while she was crying even at death.
The terrorist can rot in hell for all I care.

Aisha Buhari,please deal with him wickedly

This is a complete misuse of power.
His phone was sent to Terrorism Department for what reason?

Nawa!!! And we wonder why the country is like this?

Make this woman forgive him o..cos he as been purnished and beaten nau..una still one jail him... even if he did something wrong, wait till the court find him guilty..But u had to beat him up.. naaah that's bad... in life one thing is for sure ,What goes around would surely comeback around.. this same boy was in of the northerners when Deborah was killed o en.. I just pray God have mercy on u

Aisha is teaching Nigerians that she is not Buhari that takes all insult and that she has every right to justice just like every other Nigerian citizens. ...
I wish it hasn't come to this and be boy be pardon but it is what it is. It seams she is trying to make a point.
The boy action must be condemn no matter how you choose to look at it. Nobody wants anybody to accuse them wrongly.

Release the guy.,.why do government like to prosecute the poor people

Ok

na God go punish that fat flounder fish , Nigerians should unite and pressure the government to release the innocent young man ,what nonsense

Make dem no release the idiot.. the mxmx ed the killing of Deborah....

We have more problems at Hand than these ......APC go and get people killing people and jail them ..not this one...