Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State has granted pardon to a death row inmate, Sunday Jackson.
An Adamawa farmer, Jackson is widely perceived to have been unjustly sentenced for allegedly killing a herdsman in self-defence.
There has been widespread calls for intervention in his case.
Jackson who is in Kuje Medium Security Custodial Centre was pardoned alongside Joseph Eugene from the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Yola, and Maxwell Ibrahim, serving at the Medium Security Custodial Center in Kaduna.