Osun state, Osogbo – Governor Ademola Adeleke has exercised the prerogative of mercy towards 53 convicts serving various convictions within the Nigerian Correctional Service.
This was revealed in a statement released on Thursday, December 26, and shared on the state’s official website on X. The statement was signed by Mallam Olawale Rasheed, spokesperson to the state governor.
According to the statement, the letter of commutation dated December 24, 2024 and which has since been received and acknowledged by the relevant prison authorities read as follows:
“Now know ye therefore that, I Senator Ademola Jackson Adeleke, the governor of Osun state of Nigeria, in exercise of the power conferred on me by paragraph (a), (c) and (d) of subsection (i) of section 212 of the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as Amended), I am pleased to extend my grace and mercy unto the said inmates.
“My will and pleasure thereof, is that you commute the death, life and years of imprisonment as indicated herewith in the schedule”
Those in the schedule are as follows: Convicts recommended for outright pardon (simple offences)
- Olabomiji Nurudeen
- Mustapha Isah
- Olalekan Abdullahi
- Ayomide Olojede
- Akeem Raphael
- Adeyemi Abiodun
- Oladipupo Segun
- Omisakin Sunday
- Ademola Adio
- Tunde Olapade
- Late Chief Wole Ola Rufus Ojo
- Omoloye Olajide Olayemi
Convicts recommended for outright release (simple offences)
- Olubo Sunday
- Isah Umar Biodun
- Fawas Kareem
- Omirin Temitayo
- Olarenwaju Ayomide
- Dare Sunday
- Oladapo Tunde
- Ganiyu Saheed
- Adewumi Sodiq
- Adebayo Adeoye Kehinde
- Lasis Kazeem
- Dauda Ojo (59 Years)
- Ismaila Raji
- Oseni Micheal
- Ajayi Korede
- Abiona Nurudeen
- Oshi Samuel
- Sheu Yusuf Olatunji
- Ojo Aanu
- Mustapha Kehinde
- Lasis Abeeb
- Alexandra Iorlaha
- Ojo Taiwo
- Azeez Mujeeb
- Akinyemi David
- Adeosun Adekunle
- Olaobaju Samuel
- Adura Adefemi
- Paul Basil
- Kunle David
Convict recommended for outright pardon for good conduct (capital offences) – 4 (four)
- Sunday Morakinyo
- Segun Olowookere
- Tunde Olapade
- Demola Odeyemi
Convict recommended for outright release on health ground, (capital offences)
- Oluwafemi Fagbemi
- Bewaji Sunday
- Amehin George
- Ayomide Arulogun
- Taiwo Oluwatobi Stephen
- Abubakar Abdulazeez
Convict recommended to be commuted from death to 15 years imprisonment having spent at least 10 years in custody
- Ojekunle Timothy