Malami denies filing suit over Atiku's citizenship.

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Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami has denied filing any legal action over the citizenship of the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.

Contrary to the reports circulating the media that Malami filed a lawsuit which states Atiku, not a Nigerian and not eligible to be president says EMA

In a statement issued by Malami’s Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, Dr. unar Gwandu Wednesday denied that the report.

The statement read; “The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has never filed any case before any court in the country challenging the citizenship of the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.”

According to the statement, the matter in contention was part of the 2019 pre-election matters filed by a civil society organisation, the Incorporated Trustees of Egalitarian Mission for Africa, in suit no: FHC/ABJ/CS/177/2019 in respect of which Abubakar, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Office of the Attorney-General were made co-defendants.

“The issue had already been widely reported by the media since April 2019. It is unfortunate that stale news capable of causing confusion are repackaged and presented to the general public as current news,” he lamented.