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Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer to late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, says he will join the presidential race if prevailed upon by Nigerians to do so.
Al-Mustapha said this in a statement he released in Abuja
“I have not decided to venture into politics now and I have not been invited into that direction,” he said
Al-Mustapha, a former Chief Security Officer to late General Sani Abacha, and Shofolahan, a former aide to late Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, were sentenced to death on January 30, 2012 by Justice Mojisola Dada of a Lagos High Court
The Court of Appeal in Lagos had on July 12 freed the duo of the murder charge in two separate judgments
The chairman thanked him for the visit and urged him to forget all that had happened and forge ahead with his life
Fasehun’s camp kicked against recent statements made in several print and broadcast media by Opadokun and Adams, who have derided Fasehun for campaigning for the release of Al-Mustapha
The Army, in a statement on Tuesday by the Director, Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Ibrahim Attahiru, said the report that Al-Mustapha would automatically be made a General was erroneous
The appellants were set free from the Kirikiri Prisons in Lagos at about 5.30pm after spending over 14 years in detention for their alleged involvement in the murder of Kudirat
According to him, the judgment has given way for healing to begin throughout the country as it closes the chapter on an ugly era in the history of Nigeria
Al-Mustapha, the Chief Security Officer to late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, and Sofolahan, Kudirat’s aide, were sentenced to death by a Lagos High Court on January 30, 2012
Available information has it that Joshua stood by Al-Mustapha throughout his days in incarceration
Shofolahan had emerged five minutes ahead of Al-Mustapha into the warm embrace of friends, who were also full of joy
Meanwhile, Yinka Odumakin, spokesman of Save Nigeria Group, has described the judgment as a big blow to criminal justice in Nigeria
The convicts were sentenced to death on January 30, 2012 by Justice Mojisola Dada, for conspiracy in masterminding the murder of late Abiola
Mustapha and Shofolahan were sentenced to death on January 30, 2012 by a Lagos High Court