Nigeria, July 16 -- Former Senate President Bukola Saraki has petitioned the Legal Practitioners' Privileges Committee (LPPC), urging it to deny the state's Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Sulyman Ibrahim, the prestigious rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) over allegations of abusing his office's prosecutorial powers to pursue politically motivated criminal cases.

In the petition, Mr Saraki, a former governor of Kwara State, asked the committee to investigate what he described as Mr Ibrahim's repeated misuse of prosecutorial powers and to withhold his elevation to the SAN rank pending the outcome of the inquiry.

Mr Saraki's petition dated 25 May and supported by his affidavit sworn on 9 July, cited two cases of pros...