IF I WERE FUBARA I WILL SACK MY ATTORNEY GENERAL IMMEDIATELY

IF I WERE FUBARA I WILL SACK MY ATTORNEY GENERAL IMMEDIATELY

Prominent lawyer and human rights activist, Liborous Oshoma, has criticized Governor Fubara’s legal team, particularly his Attorney General, for providing what he describes as misleading advice. He argued that the governor was wrongly led to believe he had the discretion to recognize members of the State House of Assembly, despite clear constitutional provisions.

Oshoma emphasized that proceeding with just three members of the Assembly contradicts Section 91 of the Constitution, which mandates a minimum of 25 members. He asserted that such legal missteps undermine the rule of law and advised that the Attorney General be held accountable for his role in the situation.

He said in an interview with TVC, “If I were Governor Fubara, I would sack my Attorney General today because he had advised him wrongly. He has led him on, deceiving him—believing that, because he is not a lawyer, the provisions of that law are self-executory—so that the governor can decide who to recognize. And then he went on and on with just three members, despite the clear provisions of Section 91 of the Constitution, which says that a House of Assembly of a state shall not have less than 25 members and not more than 40.”