Emerging report, revealed that the Senate has again concluded plans to reject the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu.
According to sources, some Senators have vowed to reject the confirmation of Magu, as the substantive Chairman of the anti-graft agency, after the Presidency re-nominated him for confirmation.
Recall, that Magu’s confirmation was first rejected by the Senate, in December 2016, after acting as the EFCC Chairman for over one year, based on allegations of corruption against him, contained in a Department of State Services, DSS, report.
Other objectors to Magu’s confirmation, are alleged to be a number of former State Governors and top politicians now in the Senate, who were at one time interrogated by the EFCC for corruption.
Contacted, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, said the Senate would take a position on Magu, after the consideration of the 2017 budget.
Meanwhile, an Anti-Corruption Crusader, Rasheed Oyewumi, has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja, to disqualify Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and other ranking Senators, from being part of the screening of Magu.
He said Senators Godswill Akpabio, Jonah Jang, Aliyu Wammakko, Stella Odua, Theodore Orji, and Rabiu Kwankwaso, cannot be fair, if allowed to participate in the screening of Magu.
Other are: Senators Ahmed Sani, Danjuma Goje, Joshua Dariye, and Abdullahi Adamu. Also joined in the suit are the Clerk to the National Assembly, the Senate, the Attorney-General of the Federation, and Magu.
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