“If you clap a little bit more I may share this prize with Trump,” Pillay said in a video posted to X by the Secretary General of Amnesty International, which showed Pillay being applauded in Nuremberg after the announcement of the award.

He said Atiku would prioritise local refining through a targeted, budgeted production subsidy for fuel refined in Nigeria, alongside reforms in electricity, education, healthcare and agriculture. The proposed measures, he said, would ease production costs, improve access to essential services and create opportunities for young people and women.

Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Atiku Abubakar, has dismissed President Bola Tinubu’s 30-day petrol discount as an inadequate response to years of economic hardship, saying Nigerians would hold the administration accountable in the 2027 general election.

Trump on Friday backed the execution — saying Hasan “deserves it” and branding him a “maniac” — but did not comment on the plan to publicize it.

“Many Nigerians have called INEC to sanction political parties and candidates or some politicians who, in their campaigns, incite the public or raise matters that are not issue-based. We have been told to go on campaigns based on issues. What are you going to do about the people attacking personality or insulting individuals? Up till now, I have not heard that INEC has been able to call or draw the attention of the vice presidential candidate of the ADC, Rotimi Amaechi, to this,” the minister said.