Nigerian Presidential pardon and clemency 2025

[TerkAnd]

The Nigerian president on Thursday 9th October, 2025 granted presidential pardon and clemency to 175 convicts of which majority were remorseful drug dealers, then Illegal miners, white-collar convicts, foreigners, capital offenders amongst others.
The presidential pardon power in Nigeria as enshrined in Sec. 175 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which allows the President to 'grant pardons, reprieves or commute sentences'.
The move sparked controversy, debate with critics questioning the pardon for drug traffickers, convicts and corrupt officials. Most argue that it undermines the rule of law while others see it as a necessary tool for mercy and rehabilitating the convicts.
What is your take on this?

[Solodoski]

I came across the news of the presidential pardon of 175 convicts granted by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. It's true that the constitution gave him the power to do it, which you already quoted the section of the constitution that gave him.the power to do so. My only issue with this pardon is the people that benefited from it, I will not mention names, but I feel there are people in there that deserve it more. The poor that are in prison without proper hearing of their cases and they are still in prison. Recently there is a case of a university of portharcourt student that was sentence about 60 years for defrauding someone of a $100, I think these people deserve it more. So this pardon just makes me feel that it's something that is selective.

[Spaceman1000$]

I came across the news of the presidential pardon of 175 convicts granted by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. It's true that the constitution gave him the power to do it, which you already quoted the section of the constitution that gave him.the power to do so. My only issue with this pardon is the people that benefited from it, I will not mention names, but I feel there are people in there that deserve it more. The poor that are in prison without proper hearing of their cases and they are still in prison. Recently there is a case of a university of portharcourt student that was sentence about 60 years for defrauding someone of a $100, I think these people deserve it more. So this pardon just makes me feel that it's something that is selective.

Omo the truth be say, Presido pardon him paddy men them, men way him and them don run things  tey tey. If not tell me, what's the need for this pardon just two years into your administration, 175 persons, I know that there are lots of them that deserve that pardon, especially Ken Saro Wiwa and his brothers that where unjustly killed by the military guys in 1995, that pardon was justified, but there are some of them like faruk lawal who have committed state offense, who needs to be watched carefully, yet the president just threw caution to the winds.

[TrialBitcoin]

The Nigerian president on Thursday 9th October, 2025 granted presidential pardon and clemency to 175 convicts of which majority were remorseful drug dealers, then Illegal miners, white-collar convicts, foreigners, capital offenders amongst others.
The presidential pardon power in Nigeria as enshrined in Sec. 175 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which allows the President to 'grant pardons, reprieves or commute sentences'.
The move sparked controversy, debate with critics questioning the pardon for drug traffickers, convicts and corrupt officials. Most argue that it undermines the rule of law while others see it as a necessary tool for mercy and rehabilitating the convicts.
What is your take on this?

The Nigerian President granting a Presidential pardon and Clemency to some convicts is constitutional but where I frown at this pardon is when he pardoned those who were to face the law squarely for the crimes they committed, there are some innocent people that has been jailed for no just cause and been accused wrongly these are the people that needs presidential pardon, not some drug lords, murderers, kidnappers  and those  capital offenders.

It's necessary to decongest the prison and have mercy on law breakers but my question is?,  after granting them this pardon, won't they go back to the same crime they committed?
There's someone I know who was into serious robbery and was arrested multiple times and later sent to prison and after he was granted the presidential pardon he came home and barley two days he came out of prison he was caught committing the same crime that kept him in prison for years, in this case what should be done?