I Was Removed As Senate Majority Leader For Insisting On Confirmation Of EFCC Chairman Magu -Ndume

I Was Removed As Senate Majority Leader For Insisting On Confirmation Of EFCC Chairman Magu -Ndume
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Borno Senator, Ali Ndume, who was removed as Senate Majority Leader on Tuesday, has revealed why he was ousted. The president of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, announced Mr. Ndume’s removal shortly before the upper legislative chamber adjourned on Tuesday. Mr. Saraki read a letter from the All Progressives Congress caucus asking for the leadership change. Mr. Ndume had stepped out of the chamber to observe his early afternoon prayer when Mr. Saraki read the letter. The APC caucus, Mr. Saraki said, also chose Ahmed Lawan to replace Mr. Ndume.
BY HASSAN ADEBAYOJAN 10, 2017
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Borno Senator, Ali Ndume, who was removed as Senate Majority Leader on Tuesday, has revealed why he was ousted.

The president of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, announced Mr. Ndume’s removal shortly before the upper legislative chamber adjourned on Tuesday.

Mr. Saraki read a letter from the All Progressives Congress caucus asking for the leadership change.
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Mr. Ndume had stepped out of the chamber to observe his early afternoon prayer when Mr. Saraki read the letter.

The APC caucus, Mr. Saraki said, also chose Ahmed Lawan to replace Mr. Ndume.

Mr. Lawan was until his new role the chairman of the Senate committee on defence, a position he assumed after losing the June 2015 Senate presidency election to Mr. Saraki.
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But speaking exclusively with PREMIUM TIMES hours after his removal on Tuesday, Mr. Ndume said he was removed for insisting that the Senate did not follow the proper procedure before declaring that it had rejected the nomination of Ibrahim Magu as head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

Mr. Ndume said he insisted that in view of the Senate’s standard procedures and practice, Mr. Magu had not been rejected by the Senate because there was no confirmation hearing for the nominee to defend claims made against him.

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