 A magistrate court sitting in Yola has denied Honorable Lawal Uba a former governorship candidate of Africa Action Congress Bill for allegedly insulting Governor Amadou Umaru Fentiri. The politician has been remanded for over 30 days at the Correctional Center after being accused of sharing videos in which he accused the governor of betraying the PDP presidential candidate, former Vice President Atikua Buboka and others who helped him win election. Magistrate Aminu Abutkadir Ma'ilha dismissed bail applications by counsel to the defendant while a similar application at the High Court was dismissed. At a resumed hearing today, the judge adjourned the case till Thursday to allow the prosecution to prepare for presentation of two compact discs containing some evidence. The man has been in detention for almost more than one month and he is a gobernatorial candidate. He was the gobernatorial candidate of AAC in 2019. He contested with the incumbent governor. So why should he be subjected to this kind of physical mental torture? Just because of these simple remarks he made. Because it's a case with political undertone. Because what they are alleging that he did was that they are alleging the allegation is that he made some defamatory remarks about the governor and what are they classifying as defamatory remarks is they are alleging that he said that the people that supported the governor, the incumbent governor, to get the seat where there is occupying and that the governor has let them down and that the governor has equally disappointed his political godfather in the presence of Atikua Buboka, the presidential candidate of the PDP. So the question is that those comments, if you look at them microscopically, are they defamatory? The answer is no, they are not defamatory. Those are comments anybody can make about a politician, about a political officer. The message I have for the governor is that first and foremost, he should know he's a leader and a leader is there to take any responsibility and is there to bear in mind on whatever situation comes his way. Because he lead people and among these people there are different people who display different characters and you are one to lead them. So I think you should have that mind of accommodating all sorts of things. You are there to sort out if something of that nature happened when people have thrown to you for you to sort it out. But now as they say did and they relate it that based on what you have ordered to the governor that the government is interested in the case or is the government that is going is moving with the case. To me I am not happy about it because what I know about a leader is anything that you should manage.