The lawmaker representing Bauchi North senatorial district in the Nigerian Senate, Adamu Bulkachuwa has accused the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, of discouraging President Muhammadu Buhari from signing the amended Electoral Act.
The All Progressives Party APC Senator, said Malami dragged the National Assembly to court in the name of the President and himself because the Electoral Act did not favour him.
Bulkachuwa said, “The first Act we gave Mr President, he returned it with an amendment so if he had signed that one everything would have gone normal.
“But we think he was influenced by the Minister of Justice, who I think believed that the Electoral Act doesn’t favour him personally.
“So he advised Mr President not to sign and send in an amendment and we have cooperated with Mr. President all through from 2019 till date and so we thought Mr President brought in an amendment and we looked at the amendment and said ‘okay, let it be’. So, we fashioned it along his amendment and sent it back but sooner did we do that the same minister who advised him to sign now went to court in the name of the president and himself.”
Confirming his statement that Malami influenced Buhari not to sign the amended Electoral Act, the senator said, “Yes, the attorney general.”
