By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
The best value sincere
friends and associates of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mr.
Abubakar Malami, can inject in his career now would be to ensure that he
schools himself to always speak sparingly and recognise the need to regularly
deploy more time and effort to benefit from informed legal inputs before
responding to very serious issues. The office he occupies is such an important
and strategic one whose submissions on legal controversies Nigerians can
confidently rely upon. It is always very disheartening whenever his
interventions on very weighty national affairs are easily faulted by Nigerians,
including even street traders and roadside mechanics.
*President Buhari and Malami
When the 17 Southern governors met in Asaba on May 11, 2021, and announced a ban on open grazing behind which gun-wielding Fulani herdsmen had for several years now hidden to commit various atrocities like brutal rapes of women and daughters, wanton destructions of crops, maiming or killing of farmers and the invasion and razing of communities, AGF Malami had rushed out to describe the governors’ resolution as “unconstitutional” and “dangerous.”
