The North-Central All Progressives Congress, APC, Forum, has knocked a former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, for countering ex-Nasarawa State governor, Tanko Al-Makura’s position that a political bloc comprising members of the defunct Congress for Progressives Change, CPC, would not join the coalition being formed by former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar.

Malami, who served as the AGF and justice minister during former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, had countered a statement in which the CPC bloc in the APC, led by Al-Makura, declared its loyalty to President Bola Tinubu.

In a statement by his media aide, Muhammed Bello Doka, Malami insisted that the Buhari camp of the CPC bloc, which he is part of, is the one that could speak on whether or not it is joining the opposition coalition and not Al-Makura’s group
However, reacting to the former minister’s comments in a statement on Friday, the North-Central APC Forum said Malami lacks the credibility to speak for the CPC bloc.

The North-Central APC Forum had earlier hailed the Al-Makura-led CPC bloc for rejecting the opposition coalition.

In the statement signed by its Chairman, Alhaji Saleh Zazzaga, a member of the APC campaign council in the 2023 election, the Forum said Nigerians are not interested in Malami’s opinion, noting that he is associated with a lot of baggage due to his actions during the Buhari administration.

Abubakar Malami is behind the failure of the Buhari government due to the bad advice he offered the former President. Nigerians don’t want to hear from Malami again because they are yet to recover from the effects of the impunities he perpetrated when he served as the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice in Buhari’s government.

“It is public knowledge that Malami was at the centre of most of the things that went wrong during the Buhari administration. He undermined the fight against corruption with his undue influence over the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He single-handedly imposed Abdulrasheed Bawa as the EFCC chairman. During the period the anti-corruption campaign was derailed as high profile corruption cases were compromised,” the statement said.


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