Breaking: Adeleke Exercises Prerogative Of Mercy, Pardons Man Sentenced To Death For Stealing Fowl

Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has pardoned Segun Olowookere, who was sentenced to death for allegedly stealing fowl in the state.

Naijaonpoint reports that Segun’s case recently gained public attention after his mother appeared on the podcast of Nollywood actress, Biola Adebayo, and pleaded for intervention in her son’s plight.

The story went viral on social media, prompting Adeleke to direct the state’s attorney general to begin the process for his pardon.

Olowookere, who was 17 years old at the time of his arrest in November 2010, was convicted and sentenced to death by an Osun State High Court on December 17, 2014, for conspiracy to commit armed robbery, robbery, and stealing.

In a statement released on Thursday by his spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, Adeleke announced the pardon of Segun, alongside his co-convict, Sunday Morakinyo and 51 other inmates.

The statement read, “In line with the recommendations of the State Advisory Council on Prerogative of Mercy, Governor Ademola Adeleke has exercised the prerogative of mercy towards 53 convicts serving various convictions within the Nigerian Correctional Service.

“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.

“Convict recommended for outright pardon for good conduct (capital offences) are: Sunday Morakinyo, Segun Olowookere, Tunde Olapade and Demola Odeyemi.”