Barrister Emmanuel Ogebe, one of those in the thick of the battle to save the life of Sunday Jackson, has written to the condemned man’s Representative in the National Assembly, urging him to take necessary steps for his pardon as requested by his U.S. counterpart in last week’s public hearing.

The letter reads:

Dear Hon. Bitrus Laori ESQ.

Greetings.

We’re counsel to Sunday Jackson your constituent currently on death row awaiting execution by hanging pursuant to a final Supreme Court Judgment of March 7, 2025.

We wish to draw your attention to the international interest this matter has taken including being raised at the US congress recently on November 20, 2025 for the second time since a March hearing.

US Congressman Riley M. Moore

Speaking at a House of Representatives hearing on President Donald Trump’s redesignation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), said, “I would urge the Nigerian government to consider pardoning Sunday Jackson. He was defending his life against a Fulani militant. That militant lost his life in the struggle, yet Jackson now faces the death penalty. Where is the justice in that?”

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Accordingly, we wish to urge you to similarly take up this issue as a matter of urgency with the Governor of Adamawa in whom is vested the prerogative of mercy under the constitution to set Mr Jackson free.

Separately in a TV interview United States federal lawmaker Riley Moore has called for the release of a Nigerian citizen, Sunday Jackson, who was convicted of culpable homicide and sentenced to death by hanging for killing an armed herdsman who violently attacked him on his farmland.

Mr Moore, speaking in an interview on Fox News, revealed that there was a positive discussion during the recent meeting between the U.S. government and a Nigerian delegation…

He added, “But there’s a lot of things they can do, and one of the first steps is releasing Sunday Jackson, and another one is working with us to disarm these militants in the middle-belt of the country—the Fulani Islamic radicals that are there.”

Clearly, the case of Sunday Jackson now forebodes global ramifications far beyond the shores of Nigeria and it is now a matter of national security as well as a natural justice imperative that he be freed.

We therefore urge you to utilize your good office to procure the pardon of Mr Jackson whom the records show was charged with only two stabs by Adamawa state but was erroneously convicted of three stabs by the high court notwithstanding that at worst he could have been charged with culpable homicide not punishable with death, if at all.

We thank you for your prompt attention to this life-or-death matter.

Sincerely,

Emmanuel Ogebe, ESQ

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