An Appeal Court sitting in Yola, Adamawa State has acquitted a former governor of the state, Bala Ngilari.
The Appeal Court set aside the earlier ruling of the state High Court which sentenced Ngilari to five years imprisonment.
Justice Ambrose Mamadi had convicted Ngilari for violating due process in procurement of 25 units of vehicles during his tenure as governor.
Justice Nathan Musa, found the former governor guilty of four charges, and discharged him on one, which bordered on conspiracy.
The Judge, however, discharged and acquitted former Secretary to the State Government, and the Commissioner of Finance, who were second and third defendants in the case.
In handing down his sentence, the Judge said, the law stipulated that the convict shall not be given an option of fine.
He sentenced the former governor to five years in prison, and said the convict was free to serve his term in any prison of his choice.
