'Tender your resignation letters now' -PDP tells Malami, Ngige|Ojaomonews
The Attorney General of the federation and Minister of Justice Mallam Shehu Malami has been urged to safe his name and professional career by quitting the Buhari's cabinet without further delay.
The opposition People's Democratic Party, PDP also enjoined the minister to safe the country from international embarrassment by his refusal to resign his appointment from a government after openly declaring to run for the governoship election in his home state and obtained his party's nomination form.
According to a press release from the office of South West PDP and signed by Chief Sanya Atofarati, the party said:
"We thank many Nigerians who have raised their voices in defense of democracy by calling the APC-led administration under Buhari to follow the path of constitutionality and common sense by ordering his ministers with political ambition to first tender their resignation letters before pursuing their political interests which was complied with by some of the affected ministers.
"But the case of the number one law officer of the state who declared over the weekend that he has not resigned as the Attorney General of the Federation but had only withdrawn from the Kebbi governorship race was both pathetic and appalling.
It shows the impunity and lawlessness in the APC orchestrated by an Attorney General who had from day one been plotting to circumvent the rule of law in order to preserve his unbridled ambition to be governor of Kebbi State until the presidential directive.
Malami would have succeeded in eating his cake and having it if he had not been called to order by the ordinary law of the land which he has been flouting with reckless abandon.
"The PDP therefore urges the embattled minister to safe the noble profession and the country from international embarrassment by resigning his position now as he's not qualify to stay in that office the day he signified his interest to seek political office as a serving minister of Justice and obtained a non-refundable form for N50m.
His co -traveller, Dr Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Productivity, who had earlier resigned to pursue his 2023 presidential aspiration but suddenly withdrew the resignation letter in order to keep his job was a clear manifestation of executive recklessness by a minister who presided over a ministry under which university lecturers were on strike for six months and the presiding officer found it convenient to abandon the aggrieved workers at the negotiation table to pursue his presidential aspiration
“The PDP therefore align with the opinion expressed by Mr Femi Falana (SAN) that Since the resignation of the former Ministers has taken effect they cannot return to the cabinet either on their own volition or on the directive of the President. The resignation of the Ministers is not a cabinet reshuffle. It is akin to the removal of the former Ministers by the President" period!
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