Senator Ajibola Basiru, the spokesman of the Nigeria Senate has asked the President Muhammadu Buhari to remove the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, from office immediately over his comments on the southern governors position on open grazing.
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Media said the utterance of the AGF is “rubbishing” the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Malami had while appearing on a television programme on Wednesday, faulted the decision of the southern governors, saying it does not align with the provisions of the constitution.
The Attorney-General had said the decision “does not hold water” in the context of human rights as enshrined in the Constitution and “is like a ban on the sale of motor spare parts in the North”.
In a statement on Thursday, Basiru said Malami has no business occupying the office of the AGF, adding that the responsibility to promote unity should be that of everyone.
The senator said equating the activities of nomadic herdsmen destroying peoples’ means of livelihood with others legitimately “carrying on businesses by selling spare parts in their shops stands logic on its head”.
“Anyone who cannot rise above primordial sentiments and pursue a parochial ethnic agenda need not occupy a position of trust especially at this time of sectional agitations,” he said.
“It was not dignifying of the status of the nation’s attorney-general and minister of justice to make such remarks.
“Those who have no meaningful contributions to national discourse operating on the basis of equity and justice to keep quiet and stop rubbishing the Buhari-led APC government.
“These kind of statements have made Nigeria a laughing stock in the comity of Nations and they ridicule the administration of President Buhari. These statements are not giving hope to those at the receiving end of the activities of the herdsmen.”
