PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Friday apologised to the Senate over comments by his Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Prosecution, Okoi Obono- Oblo that the Senate lacked the powers to summon Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami.
The Senate had invited the AGF to come and explain why he dragged the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and two others to court over alleged forgery of the Senate Standing Order.
Buhari’s Special Assistant on Public Prosecution, Okoi Obono-Oblo who represented the AGF had before the Senator David Umaru, APC Niger East led Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters told the chamber that it lacked the powers to summon the Minister of Justice over a matter that was already in a competent court of law.
President Buhari who spoke through his Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, faulted the position of the the AGF, stressing 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.
The AGF, for the second time on Thursday, shunned the summon of Senate to explain why he dragged the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and two others to court over alleged forgery of the Senate Standing Order.
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