The controversy surrounding the ongoing trial of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and two others at the court over  alleged forgery of the 2015 Standing Order,  took another dimension yesterday,  as the Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters walked out the Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Prosecution, Okoi Obono- Oblo, from the Senate  Meeting Room 313,  3rd  Floor, New  Senate  Building, National  Assembly Complex
The committee headed by Senator David Umaru, APC Niger East, observed that the failure of the Attorney General of the Federation, (AGF), and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, to appear before it for the second time , was not only a slap on the Senate, but also insultive.
Trouble started soon after Oblo, introduced himself as the Special Assistant to President Buhari , attached to the office of the Minister, the Committee members dismissed his presence  insisting on seeing the AGF and not the President.
A member of the committee and  Chairman, Senate Committee on Anti- Corruption, Senator Chukwuka Utazi, said the committee did not invite the President, but the Attorney General and since he has failed to honour the invitation, it implies that the Minister did not honour the Committee  invitation.
Senator Utazi,  said:  “We did not invite the president to appear before us, so since the AGF is not here, we deem it that he did not respond to our invitation. This failure of AGF to appear before the senate is a slap on this arm of government. The AGF had refused to appear before us, leaving us to decide what to do.
Reiterating that the senate committee is only interested in asking the AGF questions on his decision to initiate the prosecution of the principal officers of the Senate, despite ongoing cases in courts of coordinate jurisdiction, challenging the case against the leaders of the Senate.
Okoi Obono-Oblo stormed out of the venue, following the refusal of the committee to recognise his presence.
After the exit of Obono – Oblo from the meeting room, Chairman of the Committee, David Umaru,  noted that the committee would report back to the Senate at plenary where a decision  would be taken.
