Alleged Secret Memo On Martial Law: I’m Pro-Constitutional Democracy – AGF-Malami
BY VICTOR BUORO, ABUJA – The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, on Wednesday night declared that he remains a true democrat who believes in rules of law and tenant of democracy and Constitutional order.
Malami in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, Dr Umar Jibrilu Gwandu, said that 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.
The Attorney General of the Federation who stated these while responding to what it described as “false and fictitious report” alleging that there was a secret memo emanating from the Office to the Presidency asking President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend the Nigerian Constitution and declare martial law, urged members of the public to disregard the media report, stressing that it is fabrications of anti-constitutional democratic stability in Nigeria.
Malami said; “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”.
Malami said that he discharges his constitutionally recognized mandates in compliance with the principles of transparency, openness and accountability.
