The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Friday, affirmed the death sentence on Maryam Sanda over the murder of her husband, Bilyaminu Mohammed Bello.
Bilyaminu is the son of former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mohammed Bello, and was killed in Abuja on November 19, 2017.
In his judgement delivered on January 27, 2020, Justice Yusuf Halilu of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Maitama, Abuja, held that circumstantial evidence proved that Maryam “fatally” stabbed her husband to death.
She was therefore sentenced to death.
Maryam Sanda however appealed the judgement.
In the judgement given on Friday, the Court of Appeal affirmed the death sentence.
