No Law Stops Magu Re-nomination for Confirmation – Osinbajo

Yemi Osinbajo has blatantly stated that there is no law in the Nigeria
Constitution preventing the Presidency from re-nominating Ibrahim Magu, the
Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, as full-functional
chairman.
Nigeria (SAN), made this revelation while addressing the newsmen at the
Presidential Villa.
emergence of Ibrahim Magu as the substantive chairman of the agency.
is up to the Senate to make their judgement and it is up to us say what we want
to do.
rejected, we can re-present him.
re-present him.
the other argument, whether or not we need to present him for confirmation and
that’s a compelling argument from Femi Falana.
under the constitution, section 171, and if you look at that section, it talks
about the appointments that the president can make.
appointments of ministers, ambassadors and heads of agencies such as the EFCC.
171, the constitution rightly said that certain appointments must go to the
Senate such as ministerial and ambassadorial appointments.
agencies like the EFCC do not have to go to the Senate.
constitution says.
which of course as you know is inferior, says that EFCC chairman should go to
the Senate for confirmation.
pocket book lawyer knows that when a legislation conflicts with constitution,
it’s the constitution that prevails.
Falana that there was no need in the first place to have sent Magu’s name to
the Senate, but we did so and it was rejected by the Senate, but I believe that
it can be re-presented.
is anything wrong about the fact that Senate has rejected him.
its own wisdom to say ‘no, we don’t want him’, and we can say ‘this is our
candidate… we like the gentleman and we want him to continue.”
Services that accused Magu of illegalities, the VP said President Muhammad
Buhari has the power to interfer with the DSS report if he wish to, but the
president decided to listen to Magu’s own justification, after which he felt
convinced to keep the anti-graft head.
President for not interfering with what the DSS said.
a report and the man who was accused refuted it.
a reason.
the President looked at what Magu said and what the DSS wrote and he said: ‘I
am satisfied with what Magu said.’
Senators protest and suspend confirmation of Buhari’s REC nominees over refusal
to sack Magu
retain Magu as the nominee for EFCC. I don’t see any reason why that should be
contested.
interfered with what the DSS said. If he wanted to interfere, he would have
ordered the DSS to keep quiet. He didn’t do that, but he said: ‘I don’t think
the DSS report is meritorious enough to withdraw his nomination.’
reserves the right to say: ‘this is who I want.’
of Magu as the EFCC chairman just as the President is,” He said.
Senate halted the approval of Resident Electoral Commissioners of the
Independent National Electoral Commission in protest of the resolution of the
executive arm of the government to still keep Magu as the head of the EFCC.
Senators protest and suspend confirmation of Buhari’s REC nominees over refusal
to sack Magu