The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami SAN had denied issuing a memo to the Presidency advising President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend the Nigerian constitution.
DAILY NIGERIAN reports that an online newspaper had claimed to be privy to a classified document which emanated from the AGF office to the Presidency in which the former was advising the latter to enforce martial law in dealing with insecurities in the South-East.
But the AGF, in a statement on Thursday by his spokesperson, Dr. Umar Jibrilu-Gwandu, advised Nigerians to disregard the media report, describing it as fabrications of anti-constitutional democratic stability in Nigeria.
He said: “Malami remains a true democrat who believes in rules of law and tenant of democracy and Constitutional order.
“The Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice is a constitutionally recognised one with its role and responsibilities embedded in the constitution.
“It is antithetical to common sense to think that the holder of such coveted Office as the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice will stoop to what was printed by the media.
“The Government does not operate in secrecy as it is not a clandestine operation. Hence, Malami discharges his constitutionally recognized mandates in compliance with principles of transparency, openness and accountability.”
