MALAMI : "Atiku is not constitutionally eligible to vie for presidency"

The Antony general of the federation and Minister for justices, Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN) had told the federal high couth in abuja tha, The formal vice president Atiku Abubakar is not Nigerian by birth, so therefore he won't be eligible for to vie for the post of presidency in 2023.

He said the former Vice President whose home town, Jada, was formerly a part of Northern Cameroon, acquired Nigerian citizenship following a plebiscite that held in 1961.

Malami argued that, having not been born a Nigerian or by Nigerian parents, and having not met the provisions of Sections 25(1) &(2) and 131(a) of the constitution, Atiku, would be violating Section 118(1)(k) of the Electoral Act should he put himself forward as a  presidential candidate.