Court Remands Nakura In Prison For Insulting NSA, Aisha Buhari

The Chief Magistrate Court II sitting successful Yola, Adamawa State, has remanded the Chairman Concerned Citizens Adamawa State, Alhaji Gambo Nakura, successful situation custody implicit alleged  offences.

The court, presided implicit by Magistrate M. A. Adamu, remanded the suspect successful situation custody and adjourned the lawsuit to 17 September 2025 for the commencement of the hearing.

Nakura was arraigned earlier the tribunal for defamation of character, usage of insulting and abusive language, disturbance of nationalist peace, and inciting disturbance, contrary to sections 378, 379, 385, and 80 of the Penal Code.

Arraigning the defendant, Counsel for the prosecution, Ezekiel Jidauna Esq, informed the tribunal that the constabulary bid had received a missive of ailment dated 8th September, 2025, from Barr. N. I. El-Yakub Esq, connected behalf of the complainants.

According to the prosecution, the personalities see the National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, the Wife of the erstwhile President, Aisha Buhari, Dr. Modi Halilu, and Barr. Comrade Mustapha Salihu, National Vice Chairman, APC Northeast Zone.

He told the tribunal that the 53-year-old suspect gave an interrogation to an online TV presumption successful Hausa Language, wherever helium made inciting, unguarded utterances, thereby defaming the quality of immoderate salient personalities successful the state.

He added that the utterances could destruct their governmental future, origin chaos, breach nationalist peace, and dent their governmental party, alleging that the suspect had besides called them thieves.

The prosecution told the tribunal that the suspect accused the aforementioned personalities of hijacking fertiliser and workplace inputs sent to Adamawa State for organisation to farmers and distributing expired nutrient items to the citizens.

He further informed the tribunal that the suspect had told an online TV presumption that the erstwhile APC Gubernatorial Candidate, Aishatu Binani, won the governorship election. Still, the personalities utilized their positions, hijacked the process, and denied her victory.

When the contented of the First Information Report was work to the defendant, helium pleaded not blameworthy to each the offences.

Consequently, Counsel to the prosecution, Ezekiel Jidauna Esq, applied for the substance to beryllium adjourned truthful that helium could assemble witnesses for the commencement of the hearing.

For his part, Counsel to the defendant, E. O. Odo Esq, applied for bail, saying that the offences are bailable nether the 1999 Constitution arsenic amended.

Odo told the tribunal that his bail exertion was brought pursuant to conception 36 (5) of the Constitution and conception 163 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law, 2018.

In a ruling connected the bail application, Magistrate M. A. Adamu admitted the suspect to bail and required the Chairman of Yola North LGC to beryllium his surety.

The defendant, who failed to nutrient his surety to fulfil the bail condition, was aboriginal remanded astatine Yolde Pate Correctional Centre.