Magu: CACOL Demands Saraki’s Resignation

The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has called for the resignation of the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, over the failure of the upper legislative chamber to confirm Mr. Ibrahim Magu as the substantive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

CACOL, in an online statement by it’s Executive Chairman, Mr. Debo Adeniran, described the Senate’s decision as “shameless and disgraceful”.

The statement further observed: “Although, we knew it was going be like making a camel pass through the eye of the needle for the acting Chairman to be made substantive, but we gave (the Senate) the benefit of the doubt.

“Remember, we alerted Nigerians that a Senate headed by Bukola Saraki will never frown at corruption and will in fact acerbate it. Senator Saraki should resign immediately to focus on clearing his name if he has any honour or morality left in him. The gravity of the charges against him makes him unfit for the revered office of the Senate President. This is the reality behind the Senate’s refusal to confirm Magu. We do not need to pretend about that.

“Like we said the last time the Senate refused to screen Magu, it was because of his impressive role as acting Chairman of EFCC and his boldness in confronting economic and financial crimes regardless of whose ox is gored that made the Senate delay his confirmation. The reality is that many members have one corruption case or the other to contend with, including the Senate President himself. They know that he (Magu) will not give in to their antics of bribery and corruption.”

The statement added: “We call on right-thinking Nigerians to demand the immediate confirmation of Mr. Magu, as there are obviously no valid reasons not to do so. We must collectively reject what has somehow become a practice by the Senate; the practice of ‘holding the whole country to ransome’.”