Buhari Begs Senate To Forgive Attorney General and Minister of Justice
President Muhammadu Buhari[/caption]
President Muhammadu Buhari has begged the Senate to ignore comments credited to his Special Assistant on Prosecution, Okoi Obono-Obla, that the Upper Chamber lacked the powers to summon the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami to explain why he dragged Senate President Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, to court over alleged forgery of the Senate Standing Order.
Malami had through Obono-Obla, said he is answerable only to the president and not the National Assembly.
But President Buhari faulted the position of the AGF, stressed that as an appointee of the president, he was equally answerable to the Senate, just as he said that the statement ought not to have been made in the first place.
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Speaking to journalists on the matter, the president’s Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, said that there was no way the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice will not respect the Senators because the lawmakers screened and cleared the ministers as ministerial nominees.
It would be recalled that the AGF, for the second time on Thursday, shunned a summon of Senate to explain why he dragged Senate Saraki and Ekweremadu over alleged forgery of the Senate Standing Order.
Buhari’s Special Assistant on Public Prosecution, Obono-Obla and in the office of the AGF who appeared before the Senator David Umaru-led Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters had lampooned the Senate, saying that the Red Chamber lacked the powers to summon the Minister over a matter that was already in court.
