What happened: Aminu Adamu, a 1998-year-old student at the Federal University of Dutse in northern Nigeria, was arrested on November 18 and transferred to Abuja five months after posting the message in which he commented on the physical appearance of First Lady Aisha Buhari and criticised her for “eating the money of the poor,” according to court documents sighted by newsmen.
The lawyer for a Nigerian student facing allegations of defaming the wife of the state’s president over an insulting tweet said his client appeared in a criminal court in Abuja on Thursday, December 01, 2022.
On Tuesday, November 29, 2022, the young man “was hauled before a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Magistrate’s Court,” his lawyer Chijioke Agu told reporters. He said, “The charge is defamation.”
