The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, says he did not institute any legal action on the citizenship of the former Vice President of Nigeria Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
Malami said this in a statement by Dr Umar Gwandu, his Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations in Abuja on Wednesday.
“I never filed any case before any court in the country challenging the citizenship of the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar,’’ he said.
He said the matter in contention was part of the 2019 pre-election matters instituted by a Civil Society Organization – the Incorporated Trustees of Egalitarian Mission for Africa in suit no: FHC/ABJ/CS/177/2019 in respect of which Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Office of the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation were made co-defendants.
He noted that the issue had already been widely reported by the media since April, 2019, saying ‘it is unfortunate that stale news stories capable of causing confusion are repackaged and presented to the general public as current news’.
