WAR BETWEEN PRESIDENCY AND THE SENATE GOT MESSIER

The progressing war of wearing down between the Presidency and the Senate got messier yesterday.

Lawyer General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice Mr. Abubakar Malami said the Senate did not have the ability to summon him for addressing.

The AGF, who was welcomed by the Senate to show up before its Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, said he was not responsible to the Senate.

He said the Senate did not designate him and, in this manner, did not have the purview to summon him.

The Senate let go back that it might be compelled to issue a warrant of capture against the AGF for his refusal to respect its welcome.

The Special Assistant to the President on Prosecution appended to the Federal Ministry of Justice, Mr. Okoi Obono-Obla, who spoke to the AGF, was left the meeting room.

The squabble occurred yesterday at the Senate Meeting Room 3 31.3, third Floor, New Senate Building, National Assembly Complex, Abuja.

The Senate had on Tuesday welcomed Malami to show up before it to disclose why he charged to court Senate President Bukola Saraki and Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu for affirmed imitation.

Saraki, Ekweremadu and two others were summoned at a Federal High Court, Abuja on Monday to answer charges of asserted fraud of the 2015 Standing Rule of the Senate.

The upper chamber made plans to welcome Malami to clarify why he supposedly revived the claimed imitation argument against Saraki and others when a court of able purview had struck it out.

The Senate that Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Abuja High Court ruled on the matter confirming that the issue was an inward undertaking of the Senate.

Before Obono-Obla was requested that leave the room, he told the board of trustees individuals that they did not have the purview to summon the AGF in light of the fact that the Senate can't be a judge for its situation.

He additionally demanded that the AGF, who was not named by the Senate, can't be liable to the Senate.

Obono-Obla said the Senate was over achieving itself by making the feeling that the AGF carried out a wrongdoing by charging Saraki and Ekweremadu to court.

He noticed that the Senate constituted itself into an official courtroom by summoning the AGF on an issue that was in court.

He told correspondents outside the meeting venue: "The AG has not done anything incorrectly. The AG has not undermined majority rules system. He acted in accordance with his forces vested on him by the Constitution, Section 174 (1) says he can indict anyone. Furthermore, he has done that. The Senate is not on trial. He has not taken the Senate to court. He has taken four persons to court. They are not the Senate. Being President of the Senate does not make you the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The matter was examined by the police and an at first sight case was built up and the AG conjured his forces under Section 174 (1) to start criminal procedures against those persons. Furthermore, this matter is currently under the steady gaze of a courtroom. There is partition of forces in Nigeria. It is not the position of legislators to constitute themselves into a courtroom.

"He's (AGF) not responsible to them. By uprightness of the rule of Separation of Powers, he is liable to the President who selected him. Also, he has not done anything incorrectly.

"You can't be a judge in your own case. We don't have trust in the board."

Obono-Obla said he was qualified to speak to the AGF on the grounds that he is working in his office as a SA to the President.

The director of the panel, Senator David Umaru, said the motivation behind the meeting was to associate with the AGF in view of Senate's determination.

Congressperson Umaru, who was baffled by the disappointment of the AGF to respect the board of trustees' welcome, said:

"We take it that the AGF did not respect our welcome. This is regardless of the way that he asked for time to well-spoken his own position. We take it that he has not regarded the Senate. We will report back to the Senate to take proper choice on the issue. We take it that the AGF has declined to respect our welcome. All the better we can do is to report back to the Senate."

Representative Joshua Lidani, an individual from the council, additionally said the AGF declined to respect the welcome.

Lidani noticed that the individual who implied to speak to the AGF is not the AGF the Senate welcomed.

He included that the individual was likewise not capable to the AGF but rather to the President.

Representative Chukwuka Utazi, another individual from the council, said: "The AGF asked that we ought to give him an opportunity to come. We put him on notification that he is to show up today (yesterday). Today (yesterday) again he has declined to come. This is a slap on the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria."