BREAKING: Supreme Court criticises Buhari for using government’s lawyer for private matter
The Supreme Court on Monday criticised President Muhammadu Buhari for using a senior state counsel at the Ministry of Justice, Abdullahi Abubakar, for his private election-related trial.
The apex court made the observation while delivering a ruling in a suit accusing the president of lying on oath. Three appellants had filed the suit alleging that Mr Buhari lied on oath in a form he submitted to the electoral commission, INEC, for the 2019 election. PREMIUM TIMES reported how the Supreme Court dismissed the main suit against the president for being statute-barred.The Supreme Court while querying the counsel that represented the president asked if Mr Buhari was sued in his capacity as president or as a private citizen.The court told Mr Buhari’s lawyer that a former president of the United States, Bill Clinton, “sponsored his own litigation personally, without involving the Ministry of Justice.
“It is inappropriate, the representation of Mr Buhari by the Senior State Counsel of the Ministry of Justice in his personal capacity and not as Nigerian President,” the court said.
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