Mr Tinubu had recently reduced Sanda’s sentence to 12 years’ imprisonment on compassionate grounds.
The administration is fast gaining notoriety for announcing ill-conceived policies only to rashly announce their suspension or reversal after public outcry.
Mrs Sanda, who was sentenced to death by handing for stabbing her husband Bilyaminu Bello to death in 2017, had her sentence “commuted.”
This letter is a mirror held up to a country that has lost the capacity for moral astonishment.
The family said the pardon disregarded the feelings of the deceased’s loved ones and reduced him to a mere statistic.
The list of beneficiaries of state pardon was drafted by the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy.
