El-Rufai: Bail mustn’t become punishment before conviction – Atiku to Tinubu’s govt

Former Vice President and Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress, Atiku Abubakar, has expressed sedate interest implicit the continued detention of erstwhile Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai.

This comes arsenic the Federal High Court refuses to reappraisal bail conditions for the embattled erstwhile governor. 

Atiku, successful a connection issued by his spokesperson, Phrank Shaibu, said the improvement raises troubling questions astir the authorities of law liberties, the medication of justice, and the increasing inclination to weaponise ineligible processes against governmental opponents.

He noted that portion courts person the discretionary authorization to enforce bail conditions, specified discretion indispensable beryllium exercised judicially and judiciously. Conditions that are manifestly excessive, unreasonable, oregon intolerable to fulfil decision the precise intent of bail and magnitude to detention done procedural means.

“The instrumentality is settled that...