Saraki: Why senate under me didn't confirm some of Buhari's appointees

Date: 2020-12-31

Saraki said this in a series of tweets on Wednesday in response to a tweet by Dele Momodu, publisher of Ovation Magazine.

Momodu had described the former Kwara governor as one of the "most intelligent" leaders in Nigeria.

The former senate president said the actions the senate under him took was about the country and not a personal agenda.

"Thanks @DeleMomodu! Compliments of the season! As I used to emphasize during our conversations while I was President of the 8th @NGRSenate: the decisions that we took, the positions we adopted, and the interventions that we embarked on were in the interest of the nation," he tweeted. "When we didn't confirm certain appointees, it was because we did our due diligence. When we invited the IG & the security chiefs, it was because we wanted to find solutions to the issues of insecurity at the time.

"It was never about a personal agenda. It was always about Nigeria!"

Ibrahim Magu, former acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), was one of the nominees rejected by the Saraki-led senate.

Magu was not confirmed as the substantive chairman of the commission owing to a report by the Department of State Services (DSS) which accused him of corruption in 2017.

But Magu has now been indicted of corruption by a presidential panel that probed him after Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation (AGF), wrote a memo to Buhari, accusing the former anti-graft czar of gross malfeasance.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     FERMA     CELF     Sarkin Malamai     Unilorin FM     AGILE Programme     Isa Aremu     Ahmed Dankaya     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     Jani Ibrahim     Taofik Abdulkareem     Onilorin     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Bolaji Gambari     Ilorin Talaka Parapo     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Suleiman Abubakar     Omotoso Musa     Abdulkadri Ahmad Alaiye     Umar Sanda Yusuf     GANZY     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     Onilupeju Of Ilupeju     Police Commissioner     Smart School     Dorcas Afeniforo     Mohammed Yisa     Igbomina     Samuel Adaramola     IF-K     Risikat Lawal     Christopher Odetunde     Ekweremadu     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Khadijat Ayoola Yusuf     COVID     Esinrogunjo     Lasiele Alabi Yahaya     Kanu Agabi     Ibrahim Orire     Muhammed Mahe Abdulkadir     Chief Imam Of Offa     Sobi     Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi     Undergraduate Bursary     National Party Of Nigeria     IYA YUSUF     Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla     MAI Akande     Kwara Poly     Quareeb     Olatomiwa Williams     CT Ayeni     Boko Haram     Al-Hikmah Radio     IEDPU     Yoruba     International Vocational Centre     Ado Bayero     Bankole Omishore     Ilorin Water Reticulation     Amuda Musbau     Joseph Yemi Ajayi     Memunat Monsuma     Sadiq Umar     Jeunkunu-Malete-Bani     Oniwa     Tinubu Legacy Forum     Ajayi Okasanmi     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Afusat Nike Ibrahim     Bareke     Maigida     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     John Mayokun Dada     Bola Sagaya     Eghe Igbinehi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Kwara TV     Raymond Olaitan     Agboola Abdulraheem     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     Kwara University Of Education     Oloje     Adekunle David Dunmade     Moses Salami     2023 Elections     IHS     Labour Party     Wahab Abayawo     Musbau A. Akanji     Maigida     Kwara Liberation Group     Salmon Babatunde Salmon     Ado Ibrahim     Opobiyi     Ijagbo Health Centre     Yomi Ogunsola     Monsurat Omotosho     2017 Budget     Shuaibu Yaman     Adedipe     Yahya Mohammed     Nnazua     Osi     Radio SBS     Mufutau Olatinwo     Isiaka Oniwa     Florence Saraki     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     Erubu     Government House     Tosin Saraki     Photo News     Irepodun     Okasanmi Ajayi     Ishaq Abdulkarim     Council Of The Wise     Maigidasanma     Olatunji Bamgbola     Omoniyi     Unilorin FM     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Ijagbo     Alaro     Ayo Adeyemi     Budo Egba     Sa\'adu Salahu     Wahab Isa     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Omar Bolaji Gambari     Saeedat Aliyu     Yinka Aluko     Saadu Yusuf     Adijat Adebiyi     Aso Ofi     Illyasu Abdullahi     Congress For National Consensus     Moji Makanjuola     Taofeeq Olateju     ASKOMP     Bolakale Kawu Agaka     KWSUED     Alapansapa     National Association Of Nigerian Students     IsDB     Lasiele Alabi Yahaya     Halimat Yusuf     UNILORIN Alumni Association     Kwara State University Of Education     GAMA     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Abdulkadir Remi Hawawu     Special Adviser On Digital Innovation     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike