The curiosities of life: Last Wednesday, exactly one year from the burial of former President Muhammadu Buhari, his son-in-law, Abubakar Malami, was humiliated in a courtroom in Abuja.
Malami served for eight years as Buhari’s Attorney-General and, no kidding, Minister of Justice.
Abuja is the city in the sky in which Buhari swore that, armed with the presidency, he would CHANGE Nigeria for good. He was lying; he made Nigeria even filthier than he had met it.
Abuja is where, together, Buhari and Malami one day in June 2020 snatched off the streets Ibrahim Magu, the chairman of the EFCC, threw him behind bars, accused him of corruption, and tried him in secret by a panel led by Justice Ayo Salami.
Malami could do no wrong: a few months later, Buhari gave him a critical assignment: to sell, within six months, all assets that had been forfeited to the government.
