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The lead counsel of the All Progressives Congress at the Presidential Election Petitions Court sitting in Abuja, Lateef Fagbemi SAN, has been assigned the portfolio of Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice by President Bola Tinubu.
Fagbemi was among the ministerial nominees screened by the Senate.
At the Presidential Tribunal, he asked the five-man panel of the court chaired by Justice Haruna Tsammani to declare that Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party and Peter Obi of the Labour party, failed to prove Tinubu’s election was rigged in their separate petitions filed at the tribunal.
He maintained that “no one presented any alternative figure” to dispute the results announced by the INEC Chairman, Yakubu Mahmood.
Fagbemi (64) hails from Ijagbo in Oyun Local Government Area of Kwara State, North Central.
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