Abdullahi was reacting to a statement credited to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo that Magu would remain as EFCC chairman under President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n
Osinbajo had reinstated, while being represented at the inauguration of EFCC office in Kaduna\u00a0on Thursday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0by Gov. Nasir el-Rufai, that the Presidency had resolved to work with Magu to stamp out corruption in the country.<\/p>\n Abdullahi said, \u201cthe Senate has already made its resolution, and our resolutions are official statements.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd most times, based on how we communicate, we don\u2019t go to press immediately because somebody has made a statement; we usually discuss issues.<\/p>\n \u201cYou know before we made that resolution the issue was debated. It is not because the executive has said something, we will react to it.\u00a0 We discuss issues first.<\/p>\n \u201cThat is what makes up an institution. Nobody in the Senate is expressing his individual opinion. We are expressing the opinion of the Senate, its stand and its position.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have given it a resolution. For now that is what subsists, and until we get a response, otherwise officially, we are not going back.\u201d<\/p>\n The lawmaker called on all arms of government to respect the rule of law for the deepening of the democracy in the country.<\/p>\n \u201cLet us work in the interest of Nigerians. We have made a point, a point which is clear.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was brought to us for confirmation, and on the basis of damning reports from the DSS, we rejected him twice. It is left for Nigerians to see and we have done our part,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Sabi Abdullahi, said Senate\u2019s rejection of nomination of Mr. Ibrahim Magu as Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) \u201cstill…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"\n![](\"https:\/\/ssl.gstatic.com\/ui\/v1\/icons\/mail\/images\/cleardot.gif\"){kind=spacer}
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