The Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, stated yesterday that the Nigerian government has a tradition of not interfering in any judicial matter, whether local or international and would uphold the position in the case involving the former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, in his trial on allegations of organ harvesting in a United Kingdom court.

This was stated by AGF in response to inquiries from State House correspondents when he was featured in the ministerial briefing hosted by the Presidential Communications Team at the State House in Abuja.

When questioned about the Federal Government’s level of involvement in the National Assembly senator from Enugu West’s case about his trial in the UK, Malami said, “It has never been the tradition of the Nigerian government to interfere on anything judicial, local or international. And that stands the position of the government.

“On the issue of the intervention on Senator Ekweremadu. I have stated in the course of my presentation, that there have been in existence, mutual legal assistance requests and collaboration between Nigeria and other countries across the world. So, to this end, I want to state that we will address requests if they are such on the part of Senator Ekweremadu.

“I can remember very well, there was a request, which was passed through my office but sealed and meant for delivery to the Crime Agency in the UK at the instance of the Distinguished Senator, which requests I was not in a position to comment on because what relates to my office was a simple transmission.”