Magu: APC’s intervention in Presidency, N’Assembly feud deadlocked

Effort by the All Progressives Congress to broker peace between the executive and the legislature over their disagreement on the sacking of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, has ended in a stalemate, The PUNCH has learnt.

The latest in the series of meetings, which began last week, was held at the Presidential Villa late on Sunday. It was gathered that the party leadership, at the end of the latest meeting, could not convince the executive and the Senate to change their positions on Magu.

Osinbajo had, in an interview in April, ruled out the possibility of Buhari replacing Magu, whose nomination was rejected by the Senate twice. He had argued that the confirmation of the Senate was not necessary for Magu to function as head of the EFCC.

The acting President’s statement drew the ire of senators, who, on Tuesday last week decided to withhold all requests for confirmation from the Presidency.
The PUNCH had exclusively reported on Monday that the party leaders had met with Acting President Yemi Osinbajo and Senate President Bukola Saraki separately over the disagreement on Magu’s confirmation.

A top member of the party, who confided in a Punch correspondent on Thursday, said a solution had not been found to the face-off.

The source, who attended the meeting, stated, “We are between the devil and the deep blue sea. Consultations and discussions are still ongoing. We were not consulted at the beginning and this thing was allowed to degenerate to this level.

“What we are doing is damage control. We had to intervene instead of waiting to be left with offering explanations for something we know nothing about.”

Punch, July 14, 2017

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