Ajibola Basiru, spokesman of the senate, says Abubakar
Malami, attorney-general of the federation (AGF), is “rubbishing” the
administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Basiru said this in reaction to comments credited to the
AGF.
On Wednesday, Malami said the resolve to ban open grazing by
southern governors is equivalent to prohibiting spare parts trading in the
north.
The southern governors resolved to ban open grazing last
week.
In a statement on Thursday, Basiru said Malami has no
business occupying the office of the AGF, adding that the responsibility to
promote unity should be that of everyone.
The senator said equating the activities of nomadic herdsmen
destroying peoples’ means of livelihood with others legitimately “carrying on
businesses by selling spare parts in their shops stands logic on its head”.
“Anyone who cannot rise above primordial sentiments and
pursue a parochial ethnic agenda need not occupy a position of trust especially
at this time of sectional agitations,” he said.
“It was not dignifying of the status of the nation’s attorney-general
and minister of justice to make such remarks.
“Those who have no meaningful contributions to national
discourse operating on the basis of equity and justice to keep quiet and stop
rubbishing the Buhari-led APC government.
“These kind of statements have made Nigeria a laughing stock
in the comity of Nations and they ridicule the administration of President
Buhari. These statements are not giving hope to those at the receiving end of
the activities of the herdsmen.”
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