{"id":28991,"date":"2020-09-24T23:24:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T22:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=28991"},"modified":"2020-09-24T23:24:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T22:24:33","slug":"malami-explains-why-he-backed-out-of-facing-panel-probing-magu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=28991","title":{"rendered":"Malami explains why he backed out of facing panel probing Magu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A week after he declared his readiness to face the Justice Ayo Salami Panel of Inquiry, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, has made a u-turn, and is explaining on Thursday why he did not appear  before the panel probing the suspended Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu.<br \/><br \/>Recall Magu asked for an opportunity to confront Malami at the panel.<br \/><br \/>Malami, in a statement by his spokesman said his non-appearance \u201cwas purely constitutional and not based on any ulterior motive\u201d.<br \/><br \/>Dr Umar Gwandu, speaking for Malami, said, \u201cIn establishing propriety or otherwise of the presence of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice whose responsibility is to hold constitutional order one must root same within the constitutional provisions.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThe terms and wordings of invitation extended to the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice to Justice Ayo Panel of inquiry against Magu runs contrary to the Constitutional provisions&#8221;.<br \/><br \/>Gwandu maintained that the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice is constitutionally to play a supervisory role.<br \/><br \/>\u201cIn the case of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice has been discharging the role effectively.\u201d<br \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week after he declared his readiness to face the Justice Ayo Salami Panel of Inquiry, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, has made a u-turn, and is explaining on Thursday why he did not appear before the panel probing the suspended Chairman of the Economic and Financial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":27248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61,240,2085],"class_list":["post-28991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-magu","tag-malami","tag-salami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}