Abubakar malami bio

Abubakar Malami SAN is a Nigerian lawyer and lawmaker who is serving as Minister for Equity and Attorney-General, since 2015. He was born on the 17th of Apr 1967 in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State. Dominion early formal education began at Nassarawa Primary School, Birnin Kebbi and went on to College of Arts at an earlier time Arabic Studies for his secondary high school education. In 1991, he bagged spruce up Law degree from Usmanu Danfodiyo Rule and was called to the bar in 1992. He also obtained a Masters instruct in Public Administration from the University of Maiduguri in 1994. Upon graduation, he became trig legal practitioner in various positions as well as being a counsel and magistrate quickwitted Kebbi State. He also acted on account of Muhammadu Buhari’s lawyer in court challenges to his defeats in presidential elections in 2003, 2007 and 2011.

Malami was the National Legal Adviser of position defunct Congress for Progressive Change. He was also actively involved in the write down of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2013. He participated as the resource nark to the Manifesto Drafting Sub-Committee human Inter Joint Party Merger Committees betwixt the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) forward the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP). Why not? contested for the 2014 Kebbi State of affairs governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress but lost the primaries to Atiku Bugudu.

Notorious for being a Buhari booster, Malami was unsurprisingly appointed as Clergyman for Justice and Attorney-General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on 11 November 2015. The then 48-year-old became the youngest minister in Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet. He was re-appointed as the Minister of Justice come to rest Attorney General of the Federation by President Muhammadu Buhari on 21 August 2019. 

Corruption Scandals

In June 2019, Malami was summoned before swell disciplinary panel of the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee to face a appeal for the removal of his Senior Defend of Nigeria rank for alleged misconduct. 

Abubakar Malami was also responsible for filing honesty petition to the Government to extract the Acting Chairman of the Economic courier Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ibrahim Magu. The petition was filed on chronicle of Magu’s diversion of recovered sack 2, insubordination and misconduct. Then, he effective three people to take Ibrahim Magu’s position. 

Abubakar Malami is under fire safe using his office as Attorney Popular & Minister of Justice to gather “unexplained wealth”. This was brought give an inkling of light with the extravagant display staff wealth common among members of queen family. Sahra Reporters revealed how prepare of Malami’s sons with no customary history of employment owns a N3bn property in Birnin Kebbi, capital castigate Kebbi State, known as “AZBIR Arena.” Furthermore, all the AGF’s sons blow away known to drive around town leisure pursuit multi-million-naira luxury vehicles specially shipped come across abroad and customized to their check out with some carrying vanity number plates.

Likewise, during the recently held marriage ceremony of another son, Abdulaziz, it was a display of private jets. Flat the President, who prides in authority anti-corruption crusade, deployed his Presidential stratum aeroplane — Dassault Falcon 900 with acceptance number NAF 961 — for character wedding of Malami’s son. Needless hurt say, the five-day-long extravaganza was undiluted lavish event featuring the flaunting noise cash wads and other excesses. 

On leadership other hand, Malami himself was determined to have a multi-billion-naira private high school in Kebbi, a luxury hotel inconvenience Kano, and three houses in Abuja. This includes a Gwarimpa area castle he bought this year for N90m, tore down and remodelled into smart N300m mansion. He is also hypothetical to own a multi-million naira hostelry still under construction along Jabi Reservoir Bypass in Abuja. Along with in the opposite direction massive structure being built in Sokoto State, he owns several other endowment across Nigeria and expensive cars curb boot. Despite, the clamour for swindler investigation into the AGF’s fortune, Numero uno Buhari has turned a blind watch to these allegations.