Bayo Onanuga, special adviser to the president on
information and strategy, said in a statement on Wednesday that the move became
necessary in view of the seriousness and security implications of some of the
earlier forgiven offences and the need to be sensitive to the feelings of the
victims of the crimes and society.

Maryam Sanda, the woman who was sentenced to death for
killing her husband in 2017, was pardoned in the initial list.

Drug offenders, illegal miners, and white-collar convicts
were also on the list before it was reviewed.

The pardon register sparked widespread criticism, with many
Nigerians arguing that several of the beneficiaries were undeserving of the
clemency.

According to the revised list, the president revoked Sanda’s
pardon and commuted her death sentence to a 12-year imprisonment.

Much of the drug offenders, including Nweke Francis
Chibueze, 44, who was pardoned while serving a life sentence at Kirikiri for
cocaine, were also taken off the mercy list.

Nwogu Peters, 67, who was among those earlier granted pardon
while serving a 17-year jail term for fraud, was excluded from the revised
beneficiaries.

Onanuga noted that Tinubu has directed the immediate
relocation of the secretariat of the presidential advisory committee on
prerogative of mercy from the ministry of special duties to the ministry of
justice.

Tinubu also directed Lateef Fagbemi, the attorney-general of
the federation (AGF) and minister of justice, to issue appropriate guidelines
for the exercise of the presidential clemency.

“This will ensure that only persons who fully meet the
stipulated legal and procedural requirements will henceforth benefit from the
issuance of instruments of release,” the statement said.

Here is a full list of the revised beneficiaries of the
presidential pardon.

PARDONED

1. Anastasia Daniel Nwaobia

2. Hussaini Alhaji Umar

3. Ayinla Saadu Alanamu

4. Hon. Farouk M. Lawan

5. Herbert Macaulay

6. Mamman Jiya Vatsa

7. Ken Saro Wiwa

8. Saturday Dobee

9. Nordu Eawo

10. Daniel Gbooko

11. Paul Levera

12. Felix Nuale

13. Baribor Bera

14. Barinem Kiobel

15. John Kpuine

PRESIDENTIAL CLEMECY

1. Oroka Michael Chibueze

2. Adesanya Olufemi Paul

3. Daniel Bodunwa

4. Hamza Abubakar

5. Buhari Sani

6. Mohammed Musa

7. Muharazu Abubakar

8. Ibrahim Yusuf

9. Saad Ahmed Madaki

10. Michael Bawa

11. Richard Ayuba

12. Adam Abubakar

13. Emmanuel Yusuf

14. Chinedu Stanley

15. Johnny Ntheru Udor

COMMUTATION OF DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT

1 Emmanuel Baba

2 Abubakar Usman

3 Khalifa Umar

4 Mohammed Umar

REDUCED TERMS

Tinubu granted reduced terms of imprisonment to 86 persons
including some 40 illegal miners and 17 drug offenders.

The rest of the crimes were spread across manslaughter,
fraud, armed robbery and possession of firearms, fraud, and conspiracy to
hijack fishing vessel.