By Godwin Agia, Jalingo
The Federal High Court sitting in Jalingo on Thursday granted bail to a Facebook poster, Fonya Sule, after one month in the Jalingo correctional centre.
People’s Daily reports that Taraba State Government, through the Office of the Attorney-General, had on 30th, September 2026, filed a criminal complaint against Sule before the Upper Area Court Jalingo, over a Facebook post credited to him, (Mr. Fonya Sule), against governor Agbu Kefas and his 2027 governorship running mate, Hajiya Zainab Ibrahim (Aunty Zee).
Available documents shows that Mr. Fonya Sule had on August 12, 2026, posted on his Facebook wall, calling on the All Progressives Congress Taraba state Deputy governorship candidate to be careful with governor Kefas before he may impregnate her.
The post read; “Aunty Zee be Very careful ooh, if not u will soon carry belle, that your boss na one time BuGu.”
Our correspondent reports that Mr. Sule was later the following week, arrested and remanded at the Jalingo correctional centre for criminal deformation of governor Agbu Kefas and his running mate, Aunty Zee.
In suite No: CM/138/28 and filed, pursuant to Section 122(A) of the Taraba State Administration of Criminal Justice Law, 2021, dated September 30, 2026, and signed by the Director of Public Prosecutions, A. D. Mustapha, Esq., alongside four other state counsels, claimed that Mr. Sule’s action was a deliberate attempt to harm the reputation of Governor Kefas and Hajiya Ibrahim, which amounts to criminal defamation and injurious falsehood punishable under Sections 392 and 393 of the Penal Code Law, Cap. 98, Laws of Taraba State, 1997.
Meanwhile, Counsel to the defendant, Pius Danba Pius, had approached the federal High court Jalingo to grant his client bail since the matter was bailable and the prosecuting counsel is yet to prove the case against his client.
Barr. Pius also told journalists at the Jalingo correctional centre that the federal high court considered the offence as bailable, and has granted bail to his client, noting that the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty by a competent court.
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