A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has reacted to the death sentence given to Maryam Sanda.
Sanda, the woman who stabbed her ex-husband, Bilyaminu to death, was convicted on circumstantial evidence.
Bilyaminu was the son of a former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Haliru Bello.
Delivering judgment on the matter on Monday, Justice Yusuf Halilu, of the FCT High Court sentenced Sanda to death by hanging after finding her guilty of murder.
The police accused Sanda of stabbing her husband with a broken bottle at about 3:50 a.m. on Nov. 18, 2017.
Reacting, Fani-Kayode described the incident as a ‘tragedy.
He wrote on Twitter, ”First the wife stabs the husband to death in a fit of jealous rage and now she has been sentenced to death by hanging.
”This is so sad! Who will take care of their children now? What a tragedy.”