Former lawmaker Senator Dino Melaye has criticised President Bola Tinubu over the recent presidential clemency granted to some inmates, alleging that among those pardoned were about 70 individuals convicted for drug-related offences.

In a post on X on Sunday, Melaye described the action as “unprecedented in history,” claiming that no other government in the world had ever granted such large-scale pardon to convicted drug offenders.

“Pardon granted 70 drug lords by President Tinubu is unprecedented in history. Checks have revealed that it has never happened in the history of the world. My advice to the President is to scrap the NDLEA. His action has made a beautiful nonsensical of all the efforts of the agency since inception,” Melaye wrote.

UGAMATV reports that President Tinubu recently granted a presidential pardon to 175 persons.

The list included late environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, nationalist Herbert Macaulay, Major General Mamman Vatsa, and Maryam Sanda, who was sentenced to death for killing her husband, amongst others.