Yar’Adua’s Son Regains Freedom

Four days after he was jailed, Aminu, son of the late ex-President Umaru Yar’Adua, who appeared in court for crushing four persons in a Yola auto crash, has been released.

A Magistrate Court sitting in Yola had last Thursday remanded 36-year-old Aminu Yar’Adua in prison for allegedly killing four people in a road accident on June 23, 2021

Aminu who is a student of the American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola, was later charged to court for causing the death of four people and injury to two others through dangerous driving.

According to Daily Post, Aminu Yar’Adua had been released from prison after his people reached an agreement with the families of the accident victims.

A close relative of one of the deceased, Aisha Umar, said in confidence that they were taken to the Magistrate court where they were asked to leave the matter to God and that they obliged and left the matter.

The prosecuting Magistrate’s Court had earlier been told that the relatives of late Aisha Umar, Suleiman Abubakar, and Jummai Abubakar had demanded the sum of N15 million from Aminu as compensation.

Following Aminu’s sudden release, it was alleged that his family paid out the N15 million, but Aisha Umar’s relative said no money exchanged hands between Aisha’s family and the Yar’Aduas’

“We were not given a penny. If there is any arrangement, we were not aware of it as a family,” the relative said.

A source close to Aminu Yar’Adua insisted, however, that N15 million went from Aminu to the bereaved families.

“I can confidently tell you that there was a settlement between the Yar’Adua family and the families of the victims,” he insisted.