The Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami
(SAN), says the suit challenging the citizenship of former Vice-President Atiku
Abubakar, started in 2019.
He further stated that he did not institute the case as it
was filed by a civil society organisation – the Incorporated Trustees of
Egalitarian Mission for Africa.
The AGF said this in a statement titled, ‘I didn’t file suit
against Atiku’s Citizenship – Malami’, which was signed by his spokesman, Dr.
Umar Gwandu.
He explained that the matter was part of an election case
which started in 2019.
The statement read in part, “Attorney General of the
Federation, Abubakar Malami, has not instituted legal action on the citizenship
or otherwise of the former Vice-President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji
Atiku Abubakar.
“Malami has never filled any case before any court in the country challenging the citizenship of the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
“The matter in contention was part of the 2019 pre-election
matters instituted by a civil society organisation – 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 Independent National
Electoral Commission and the Office of the Honourable Attorney General of the
Federation was made a co-defendant.”
The AGF said the issue had already been widely reported by
the media since April 2019.
“It is unfortunate that stale news stories capable of
causing confusion are repackaged and presented to the general public as current
news,” the statement read.
The AGF had in his response to the suit, claimed that Atiku
was not a natural born citizen of Nigeria but a Cameroonian.
He said the former Vice-President was born in Jada in the
1940s at a time the town was still part of Cameroon.
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