Maryam Sanda has been sentenced to death by hanging for stabbing her husband, Bilyaminu Bello, to death.
A Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court in Abuja gave the verdict on Monday.
The deceased is the son of a former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic party, PDP, Haliru Bello.
Justice Yusuf Halilu, convicted her on circumstantial evidence.
The killing was premeditated, the police said.
The police accused Maryam Sanda of stabbing her husband with a broken bottle at about 3:50 a.m. on November 18, 2017
The police also accused Maimuna Aliyu, Sanda’s mother; Aliyu, her brother, and Sadiya Aminu, her housemaid, of tampering with evidence by cleaning the blood and other proofs from the crime scene, but charges were later dropped.
