An aide of former Sokoto State governor Aminu Tambuwal has been remanded in prison for sharing a media content considered offensive to the state governor, Ahmad Aliyu.
Shafiu Umar was remanded in a correctional facility for allegedly insulting the governor, his wife, and his deputy on a Facebook post.
Tureta was charged before a magistrate in Sokoto on Monday.
A magistrate, Fatima Hassan, barred reporters from covering the court proceedings on Monday.
The police’s first information report (FIR) shows that the government charged Tureta with circulating injurious falsehood and engraving matter known to be defamatory, which was said to have contravened the Penal Code.
The aide was said to have committed the offences in July.
Tureta was also accused of sharing a document that purportedly showed that Aliyu scored F9 in English Language in the senior school certificate examination (SSCE).
The aide was also said to have posted a video showing the spraying of dollar notes during the birthday celebration of Fatima, the governor’s wife.
His lawyer, Yusuf Abubakar, later told reporters that Umar denied the charges and made an oral application for his bail.
The Chief Magistrate adjourned the ruling on bail application to 6 September and ordered his remand in the correctional facility till then.
