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Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by atorioke(m): 6:53am On Jul 07, 2017
The Presidency’s insistence on Ibrahim Magu as Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) chief may have been strengthened by opinions of legal giants, The Nation has learnt.

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo said yesterday in Kaduna that Magu would not be removed. The Senate is insisting on Magu’s removal, saying it will shun nominations from the Executive if the EFCC chief remains.

Some legal experts, including Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) met for about five hours on Wednesday night to review the “Magu issue and the Senate’s threat”.

The Presidency, it was learnt, was told to keep Magu because it had valid constitutional reasons to do so. The experts relied on Section 171 of the 1999 Constitution.


Besides, they endorsed EFCC’s and Magu’s decision to seek the consolidation of all the cases on his status in court.

The agency has written a letter to the Federal High Court, pleading for the consolidation of six suits.

In a letter to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, Magu and the EFCC stressed “the fact that the reliefs sought in the matters(six) and the subject matter are the same”.

The letter, written by the counsel to the two parties, Wahab Shittu Esq, is titled, “Re: Humble appeal for consolidation of the underlisted matters.”

“The matters are:

Suit No. FHC/ ABJ/ CS/ 225/2017 Registered Trustees of African Patriotic Youth Assembly vs. Ibrahim Magu and six Ors., pending before His Lordship Justice A.R. Mohammed of Court 8 and presently adjourned to 27th September, 2017.
Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/159/2017 John Mary Chukwukasi Jideobi vs. The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and three Ors., pending before His Lordship Justice Quadri of Court 10 and presently adjourned to 10th October 2017.
Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/374/2017 Lady (Barr) Chidinma Udebuani vs. The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, pending before His Lordship Justice A.R. Mohammed of Court 8 and presently adjourned to 12th Sept, 2017.
Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/227/2017 Ahmed Tijani Yusuf and anor. vs. Ibrahim Magu and five Ors., pending before His Lordship Justice A.R. Mohammed of Court 8 and presently adjourned to 27th Sept. 2017.
Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/56/2017 Save Nigeria Group (SNG) Ltd/Gte vs. President Federal Republic of Nigeria and Six Ors., pending before His Lordship Justice Tsoho of Court 3 and presently adjourned to 12th Sept 2017.
Suit by Jibrin Samuel Okutepa(SAN)
“This humble request is to avoid multiplicity of suits in respect of the same subject matter and also forestall possible conflicting judgments. Please find herewith attached front-page copies of each of the matters; the subject matter of this humble application. We will appreciate your approval of this humble request,” Shittu wrote.


Meanwhile, for about five hours, the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, met with some Senior Advocates of Nigeria and legal on Wednesday night on the legal battle on Magu.

A source said the session ended at about 1am on Thursday.

The source said: “At the session, the experts said the Presidency has a valid constitutional reason to keep Magu in office by virtue of Section 171 of the 1999 Constitution.

“They also said the decision of the Senate to reject the consideration of all nominations from the Executive because of Magu was subjudice to the ongoing matters in court.

“They asked the government to seek the interpretation of Section 171 of the 1999 Constitution in court.

“The government was also advised to declare its confidence in Magu. This informed the position of the government yesterday, declaring that its choice for the EFCC job remains Magu.”


https://www.google.com.ng/amp/thenationonlineng.net/president-insists-magu-efcc-boss/amp/

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Re: Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by sarrki(m): 6:56am On Jul 07, 2017
Whatever Magu is going nowhere

Osinbajo I swear we are with you

God is with you

Henceforth your name shall be Emmanuel

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Re: Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by profhezekiah: 6:57am On Jul 07, 2017
comin
Re: Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by 989900: 7:00am On Jul 07, 2017
Osinbajo taking the right steps slowly, but surely -- they will only end up making him more popular and stronger . . . these things have a reverse-effect sometimes.

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Re: Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by seunmsg(m): 7:01am On Jul 07, 2017
Seeking a judicial interpretation is the best way to go. The federal high court struck down a particular section of the electoral act some years back for being inconsistent with the constitution and I believe the same will happen this time around. The EFCC act cannot be superior to the constitution of the country.

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Re: Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by Nobody: 7:06am On Jul 07, 2017
them think say to become PROF Na beans, oshinbajo is smart,
modified;
the man is a winner
he's smart
empty barrel use to make noise
ask any person wey near PROF make them tell u thier story, I mean they are very smart!

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Re: Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by jhydebaba(m): 7:11am On Jul 07, 2017
hope the ag. Pres. is not playing to the gallery. Make dem no impeach am oh. Senate dey para.
Re: Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by HMZi: 7:11am On Jul 07, 2017
magu must rily know tinz o

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Re: Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by escodotman: 7:23am On Jul 07, 2017
Nigeria and lawlessness. Impunity everywhere, leaders only obey the resolutions that favour them. The Senate rejected a nominee but you still insist on keeping him.

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Re: Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by raker300: 7:23am On Jul 07, 2017
Imagine this?!

5 hours to deliberate on a nonentity..

Imagine dedicating such a time to the suffering masses..

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Re: Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by ImadeUReadThis: 7:24am On Jul 07, 2017
Was he privy to Magu's nomination who was picked by Buhari's Aso Rock cabal?

Answer: NO!

Was he elected to slug out constitutional matters with the Senate?

Answer: NO!


Instead of this man to drop his lawyer briefcase and assume the leadership role he was bestowed with and to start building an amicable bridge with the Senate he is stubbornly behaving like Buhari's legal adviser over a non- issue.

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Re: Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by ImadeUReadThis: 7:27am On Jul 07, 2017
adetoroamos:
them think say to become PROF Na beans, oshinbajo is smart, he will concur dem all

Instead of using the office that he was bestowed upon to help repair the damage done by his principal Buhari, osinbanjo wants to use the stage as his personal court room.

Stupid man defending magu who he was never consulted on his nomination

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Re: Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by CROWNWEALTH019(m): 7:32am On Jul 07, 2017
A drowning man grin

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Re: Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by achieverme(m): 7:33am On Jul 07, 2017
jhydebaba:
hope the ag. Pres. is not playing to the gallery. Make dem no impeach am oh. Senate dey para.

Playing to the gallery for seeking legal advice? Chai, you brain must be very dead.

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Re: Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by achieverme(m): 7:34am On Jul 07, 2017
escodotman:
Nigeria and lawlessness. Impunity everywhere, leaders only obey the resolutions that favour them. The Senate rejected a nominee but you still insist on keeping him.

Should we cut your brain open and pour sense into it before you know that the constitution of Nigeria is greater than any other law, rule or legislature?

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Re: Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by tesppidd: 7:39am On Jul 07, 2017
ImadeUReadThis:
Was he privy to Magu's nomination who was picked by Buhari's Aso Rock cabal?

Answer: NO!

Was he elected to slug out constitutional matters with the Senate?

Answer: NO!


Instead of this man to drop his lawyer briefcase and assume the leadership role he was bestowed with and to start building an amicable bridge with the Senate he is stubbornly behaving like Buhari's legal adviser over a non- issue.
and how would you know he wasn't involved in the picking of Magu? if you have no comment to make why not just shuut it? When one tries too hard to appear intelligent they make a spectacle of themself.

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Re: Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by Nobody: 7:42am On Jul 07, 2017
ImadeUReadThis:


Instead of using the office that he was bestowed upon to help repair the damage done by his principal Buhari, osinbanjo wants to use the stage as his personal court room.

Stupid man defending magu who he was never consulted on his nomination
U want him to lick their ass instead? The question is, why are they afraid of magu?

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Re: Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by escodotman: 7:51am On Jul 07, 2017
achieverme:


shame on your flaaaathead father for not using condoms that night
Look at your comments towards people, where are you from?? You are a disgrace to your family! Signs and symptoms of a fatally and ill-trained vagabond. Chai!

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Re: Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by Qmerit(m): 7:51am On Jul 07, 2017
escodotman:
Nigeria and lawlessness. Impunity everywhere, leaders only obey the resolutions that favour them. The Senate rejected a nominee but you still insist on keeping him.


You are missing it boss.
It is now dawn on us that Magu is their nightmare at the senate. And the nomination was wrongly sent in the first place, they ve no power under EFCC. Constitutionally.... what they quote is passive

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Re: Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by achieverme(m): 7:53am On Jul 07, 2017
escodotman:
How foolish and idiotic are you!! Why dont you use your jaundiced brain to study what the constitution says about confirmation of presidential nominees by the Senate before you come here to display your moronic brain.... Tsk tsk tsk there are many idiots in this country sha.

First of all, there is nothing like a jaundiced brain. Jaundice is a manifestation of extravascular hemolysis on the sclera of the eye. So, you just show that you are a compound idiot by trying to sound superior. Cursed fool.

Secondly, section 171 of the constitution stated that the president has the freedom to appoint heads of parastatals, including EFCC Chairman, without recourse to the Senate. So, your argument is not only lame, but also stupid

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Re: Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by ImadeUReadThis: 7:54am On Jul 07, 2017
yemaldo:

U want him to lick their ass instead? The question is, why are they afraid of magu?

Afraid of who?


Magu that is yet to secure a single court conviction?

Magu who is obviously not qualified for chairman of EFCC?

The Senate rejected Magu solely in the grounds of the DSS security dossier on him which recommended that Magu was not honest enough to be bestowed with such position as the head of Nigeria's corruption agency.

Go and ask why the same DSS refused to clear him.

Or do you want this same house to work against a security report?

All of una just dey make noise

Magu remains a nobody and the only reason the Senate rightly rejected him was based on the DSS report.

Where I think the Senate went wrong is where they held a closed door screening of Magu which the Senate said was to protect him from being exposed by the security report which Magu could not provide credible defense for himself.

Osinbanjo is just being an over busy body over this Magu issue as he just wants to use the saga to tell Nigerians he is a professor of law.

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Re: Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by Dannyset(m): 7:59am On Jul 07, 2017
jhydebaba:
hope the ag. Pres. is not playing to the gallery. Make dem no impeach am oh. Senate dey para.
Who will carry out the order if the Senate impeach him? They are only deceiving themselves. In our kind of politics, the Executive wield more power than on paper.

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Re: Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by Okoroawusa: 8:00am On Jul 07, 2017
why r d sinators afraid of magu?

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Re: Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by pauljumbo: 8:12am On Jul 07, 2017
Then why did the presidency send him to the Senate?

This presidency is so incompetent

One of the president staff wrote a letter against magu and they use it against

Why are we blaming saraki and not the disunited presidency
Re: Osinbajo Held Meeting With SANs For 5 Hours, Before Insisting On Keeping Magu by escodotman: 8:12am On Jul 07, 2017
Qmerit:



You are missing it boss.
It is now dawn on us that Magu is their nightmare at the senate. And the nomination was wrongly sent in the first place, they ve no power under EFCC. Constitutionally.... what they quote is passive
You are the one getting it wrong sir! The constitution is clear, Magu may be their ''nightmare'' but was it the Senate that declared Magu not fit to head EFCC?? NO! It was rather the DSS which is another agent of the presidency, working directly under the president, so what are we talking about?? Whats the fault of the Senate here?

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