Malami denies authorship of circulated state of emergency memo

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The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), has denied the purported memo to President Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to suspend the Constitution for martial law.

Reports making the rounds had claimed that Malami, in an eight-page secret memo dated May 4, 2021, told Buhari that insecurity across Nigeria has reached a level that could no longer be checked by the existing democratic techniques.

“The essence of declaration is to allow for suspension of constitutional and legal bureaucratic bottlenecks pertaining to matters of National Security with particular regards to fundamental rights guaranteed under Chapter IV of the 1999 Constitution and processes and procedures relating to procurements, among others,” the attorney-general said in the alleged memo.

But Malami in a statement via his media aide, Dr. Umar Gwandu, denied advising the president along such lines as he stressed being a true democrat.

He therefore declared his support for constitutional democracy and urged Nigerians to ignore the report, describing it is handiwork of enemies of democracy.

The statement reads; “The attention of the Office of the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) has been drawn to a false and fictitious report alleging that there was a secret memo emanating from the office to the Presidency.

“General public are hereby asked to disregard the media report as fabrications of anti-constitutional democratic stability in Nigeria.

“Malami remains a true democrat who believes in rule of law and tenant of democracy and constitutional order.

“The government does not operate in secrecy as it is not a clandestine operation. Hence, Malami discharges his constitutionally recognised mandates in compliance with principles of transparency, openness and accountability”, the media aide stated.

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