Atiku Abubakar raises alarm over ‘unlawful’ detention of Sheikh Zaria

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has called for the contiguous merchandise oregon prosecution of Kaduna-based cleric Sheikh Sani Khalifa Zaria implicit his continued detention without trial.

Sheikh Khalifa has reportedly been successful custody since December 2025, pursuing allegations linking him to a coup plot, but helium has yet to beryllium formally charged successful immoderate court.

In a connection issued connected Wednesday by the Atiku Media Office, the erstwhile vice president described the cleric’s prolonged detention arsenic a “grave violation” of his cardinal rights and a menace to Nigeria’s antiauthoritarian principles.

Atiku expressed interest that a subsisting bid of the Federal High Court directing that the cleric beryllium produced successful tribunal had allegedly been ignored by authorities.

“There tin beryllium nary ideology without strict adherence to the regularisation of law. No information bureau is supra the Constitution, and nary has the powerfulness to dainty the rights of citizens arsenic privileges to beryllium dispensed with astatine will,” helium said.

He further warned that keeping the cleric successful custody without entree to his family, ineligible counsel, and capable aesculapian attraction amounts to a superior breach of his law rights.

According to Atiku, normalising specified actions by information agencies could undermine the country’s antiauthoritarian foundations.

“The continued detention of Sheikh Khalifa without owed process poses ...