Clement Akpamgbo, SAN was a Nigerian lawyer who was Attorney-General of the federation between 1991 and 1993 during Nigeria's failed transition from military to democratic government. Before his ministerial appointment, he was the president of the

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. In 1993, Akpamgbo sided with the camp that supported the suspension of

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on June 12, 1993, basing his argument on an order from procured by the

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-led Association of a Better Nigeria from an Abuja High Court halting the conduct of the election. Akpamgbo became a

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in 1985, after twenty years of teaching and practicing law in the country.

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