The controversy trailing the appointment of Ibrahim Magu as Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), may be far from over.
The Senate yesterday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to nominate a replacement for Magu in line with the verdict of an Abuja Federal High Court which affirmed its powers to confirm or reject the President’s appointments.
The upper chamber vowed not to consider the President’s confirmation requests until its resolution rejecting the appointment of Magu is complied with.
Justice J.I. Tsoho on January 15th said that the Senate has statutory duty to confirm appointments referred to it by Mr. President.
The chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Aliu Sabi Abdullahi, who briefed reporters on the court verdict, said:
“By this (court) judgment, for those who have been worried that the Monetary Policy Committee never met, I think this is a window for the MPC to see the light in meeting.
“If the Executive does the needful, provides another Nigerian of credible character of which we have millions of them – 180 million of them – even by arithmetic error, we should be able to get good people.
“So, it is our hope and prayer that our amiable President will find this judgement in order and will be submitting very soon another nominee to carry on with the good work of anti-corruption, especially now that we are very proud of him as the African Union Anti-Corruption Ambassador.”