Nigeria, Feb. 1 -- "What goes around comes around," the old saying warns - a timeless reminder that power is fleeting and authority, when exercised without restraint, often returns to confront its wielder. In Nigeria's political and legal history, few contemporary episodes illustrate this irony more vividly than the intersecting narratives of Abubakar Malami, former Attorney-General of the Federation, and Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd.), former National Security Adviser.

For Malami, once the nation's chief law officer and a central figure in the prolonged prosecution and detention of Dasuki, the spotlight of public scrutiny has reportedly shifted. In what many observers describe as a striking case of the hunter becoming the hunted, reports o...