‘Magu is a victim of civil war in President’s cabinet,’ Shehu Sani says
The Senate has refused to confirm Magu as the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
President Muhammadu Buhari
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The Senate, on Wednesday, March 15, refused to confirm Magu as the substantive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The upper legislative chamber based its decision on a report by the Department of State Services (DSS) in which it accused Magu of corruption and said he had failed the integrity test.
“Magu is a victim of the civil war in the President’s kitchen cabinet. It is high time the President stood his feet to stop power blocs who are desirous of undermining and subverting his efforts,” Sani said on Thursday, March 16, during a meeting with law students in Abuja.
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“But Buhari is alone in the fight against corruption in the sense there are many persons around him who are corrupt. They did not declare their assets publicly like the President, Osinbajo and myself, hiding under the secrecy law,” he added.
Magu had earlier also been rejected by the Senate in December 2016, based on the same report.
He was however screened by the upper legislative chamber when Buhari re-nominated him.
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