The ongoing fiasco between the Executive and the Senate has taken a new twist as President Muhammadu Buhari has been forced to apologize to the Senate.
President Muhammadu Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has tendered an unreserved apology to the Senate over statements by the Special Assistant to the President on Prosecution, Okoi Obono-Oblo yesterday.
Okoi Obono-Oblo had said that the Senate lacked the powers to summon Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami to explain why he dragged the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and two others to court over alleged forgery of the Senate Standing Order.
Vanguard reports that Buhari faulted the position of the the AGF, stressing that as an appointee of the President, he was equally answerable to the Senate, just as he said that the statement ought not to have been made in the first place.
Buhari’s Special Assistant on Public Prosecution, Okoi Obono-Oblo who was walked out by the senate after he appeared as a representative of the AGF had said that the senate had no powers to summon the AGF over a matter that was already in a competent court of law.
Speaking through his Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, Buhari said there was no way the Attorney General of the federation and Minister of Justice will not respect the Senators because the lawmakers screened and cleared the ministers as ministerial nominees.
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