Nigeria: Ribadu - Attorney-General Has No Power to Withdraw Charges (2)

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Lagos — Soyombo Opeyemi Argues That the Withdrawal of Charges Against Mallam Nuhu Ribadu On the Alleged Breach of the Code of Conduct By the Attorney-General of the Federation Amounts to an Exercise in Unconstitutionality...

Let me, in parenthesis, attempt some pre-emptive strike here- and it is good we sometimes stretch our imagination. It may be argued that the phrase "Act of the National Assembly" is elastic enough to accommodate even the 1999 Constitution itself.

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