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A Father\u2019s Forgiveness\u2026 and a Family\u2019s Fury<\/strong><\/p>\n On one side of the battlefield stands Alhaji Ahmed Bello Isa, the biological father of the slain Bilyaminu. Stoic and composed at a press conference in Abuja, he declared that he had \u201clong forgiven\u201d his daughter-in-law and viewed her release as \u201cthe will of God.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI am happy that the father of the nation has released Maryam so she can care for her children,\u201d he said with calm resolve. \u201cI have no bitterness. Vengeance will not bring my son back. But forgiveness, perhaps, can bring peace.\u201d<\/p>\n He even revealed that his appeals for clemency date back to 2019, before the death sentence was even pronounced. \u201cI wrote letters. I pleaded. I saw her not as a murderer, but as the mother of my grandchildren. I chose mercy.\u201d<\/p>\n But that olive branch was quickly torched by another branch of the family.<\/p>\n \u201cA Slap in the Face of Justice\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Just 24 hours earlier, Dr. Bello Haliru Mohammed, Bilyaminu\u2019s powerful uncle and a former PDP National Chairman, who is said to have brought him up, blasted Tinubu\u2019s pardon as \u201cthe worst possible injustice\u201d, branding it a grotesque betrayal of justice and a spit on the memory of a man whose death shocked the nation.<\/p>\n \u201cThis isn\u2019t mercy. This is selective, manipulated leniency,\u201d the family\u2019s scathing statement read. \u201cMaryam Sanda wasn\u2019t just convicted\u2014she was condemned by three courts, including the Supreme Court. She didn\u2019t just kill our son\u2014she butchered him, and now she walks free like it never happened.\u201d<\/p>\n They didn\u2019t stop there. The statement eviscerated the emotional narrative spun around Sanda\u2019s children, calling it \u201ca cynical ploy\u201d to soften public sympathy. \u201cShe\u2019s using the same children she orphaned as shields. Let\u2019s not forget\u2014she stole their father. Now she uses their faces to win mercy.\u201d<\/p>\n And as for remorse?<\/p>\n \u201cNot once did she show genuine regret. No tears. No apology. Just a cold, calculating silence. And now she\u2019s rewarded? This is not justice\u2014it\u2019s a cruel joke.\u201d<\/p>\n A House Divided<\/strong><\/p>\n As Nigeria reels from the pardon, the Bello family is visibly split\u2014torn between faith and fury, healing and heartbreak.<\/p>\n Alhaji Isa insists the path of forgiveness is the higher ground: \u201cWe do not all see the same way. But I am the father of the deceased, and my forgiveness is complete.\u201d<\/p>\n Dr. Haliru, however, isn’t buying it. Insiders say he views the pardon as the result of powerful lobbying and elite connections, arguing that in Nigeria, justice bends to who you know, not what you\u2019ve done.<\/p>\n And caught in the middle? Two children, now growing up in the long shadow of a murder that took their father, and the pardon that set their mother free.<\/p>\n Justice or Betrayal?<\/strong><\/p>\n The Maryam Sanda saga once stood as a rare beacon of accountability in Nigeria\u2019s flawed justice system. Now, many see the presidential pardon as its ultimate undoing. But one chilling fact remains: a man is dead, killed by the woman he once loved. And while she steps back into the world, the family he left behind is trapped in a disagreement\u2014one soaked in forgiveness, fury, and the lingering sting of unfinished justice.<\/p>\n Nigeria watches. The wounds are open. 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\nOne side of the family says: let it go. The other says: never forget.<\/p>\n