Nigeria, Oct. 21 -- A Nigerian lawyer, Victor Nwadike, has filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja to challenge the presidential pardon granted earlier this month by President Bola Tinubu.

The suit filed on 15 October names the president and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, as defendants. Mr Fagbemi heads the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy, which recommended the clemency extended to 175 persons.

The list included about 50 convicted traffickers of illicit substances such as cocaine, heroin, cannabis, tramadol, and Indian hemp. Many of the convicts have barely spent a year in prison for their grievous offences.

The list sparked public outrage after ...