By Sarah NEGEDU
President Bola Tinubu has granted a presidential pardon to former member of the House of Representatives, Farouk Lawan, alongside three other ex-convicts, while extending posthumous clemency to Major General Mamman Vatsa and nationalist Herbert Macaulay.
Lawan, who had chaired the House Committee on Fuel Subsidy in 2012, was convicted in 2021 for soliciting and accepting a $500,000 bribe from oil magnate Femi Otedola and sentenced to seven years in prison before the term was later reduced on appeal.