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Falana mocks Senate, says wait till Saraki becomes Acting President to remove Magu

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Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has called on the Senate to wait until such a time the Senate President Bukola Saraki becomes acting president for the lawmakers to remove the acting chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu.

Falana stated this in a statement on Thursday, while again insisting that Magu’s appointment did not require Senate’s approval.
“In view of the foregoing, the implementation of the resolution of the Senate on the removal of Mr. Ibrahim Magu as the acting chairman of the EFCC should be ignored by the Presidency on account of its apparent illegality.

“However, the distinguished senators who are desperate to institutionalise official corruption and impunity in the country by removing Mr. Magu from office may have to wait for the planned installation of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki as the Acting President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria!” the statement read in part.

Falana’s statement is coming at a time the face-off between Acting President Yemi Osinbajo and the Senate over Magu’s appointment is heightened.

Read also: Osinbajo dares Senate, says Magu is going nowhere

Osinbajo, who was represented by Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, had earlier on Thursday at the opening of EFCC office in Kaduna, maintained that Magu will remain EFCC chairman so long as the present administration subsists.

Meanwhile, the Senate had on Tuesday threatened that it was never going to approve any appointment sent to it from the presidency except Magu, who the lawmakers had on two occasions rejected is sacked as EFCC boss.

It also demanded that Osinbajo withdraw a statement he made in April, where he aligned himself with an earlier position of Falana that the Presidency did not need the approval of the Senate to sanction Magu’s appointment as the anti-graft agency czar.

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