HUMAN rights lawyer Monday Ubani has faulted the wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, over the arrest and detention of a student, Aminu Adamu.
The student was arrested over an alleged derogatory post he made about the President’s wife on social media.
Speaking on Channels Television on Thursday, December 1, Ubani urged public office holders and their relatives to be tolerant because people will always criticize their actions.
“As a public officer, you have to be tolerant. If you don’t have tolerance, you will need to arrest everyone because immediately they criticize you, the next thing is that you order the police or the DSS (Department of State Services) to arrest them.
“I don’t think it is proper. We cannot in any way use a sledge harmer to kill a fly. A young student criticizing the President’s wife should now attract a President’s wife to be interested in getting the young man arrested. To me, that is going too extreme,” he stressed.
Ubani added that public office…
