The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, (SAN), stated today the Federal Government was unwilling to tolerate any subversive activities under whatever guise, capable of undermining the nation’s democratically elected government.
Fagbemi noted that although the Federal Government was committed to promoting and upholding the fundamental rights of all citizens, it will not tolerate any infraction or breach of same rights by any person or organization under any guise, except as allowed by the Constitution.
The AGF spoke in Abuja at the valedictory court session in honour of the retiring Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, who retired on August 22 on the attainment the mandatory retirement age of 70 years.
Fagbemi said the present administration at the federal level has a clear mandate of the people, and can only be changed at the end its tenure as provided I the Constitution he added that any other mode or attempt to change a democratically elected government, except as provided by the Constitution, is nothing but a clear case of treason and subversion of democratic governance.
The AGF said that the laws of the land have made copious provisions on how to deal with treasonable acts, stressing that the full wrath of the law will catch up with such treasonable felony it is also pertinent to state that constitutional democracy and Governance has laid out its peculiar features and attributes.
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