Why Presidency insists on Magu as EFCC chair – PACAC

The Presidency insists on Ibrahim Magu as the substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC] because he is the best candidate for the job, a member of Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption [PACAC] Prof Etannibi Alemika has said.

Alemika disclosed this in Abuja at the weekend during the question and answer session at the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development [Centre LSD] annual leadership lecture and 9th graduation ceremony of the Leadership School.

He said there was conspiracy against Mr Magu by people, who felt he was investigating them for corruption and they therefore vowed the acting chairman would not be confirmed.

“Our chairman [Prof Itse Sagay] has responded to press enquiries many times that Magu is the best candidate for now.

“… If you are not careful and you are in government, the legislators would have removed all the people working with you on the basis of one accusation or the other, and you will be left with nobody to work with’’.

“And those people [at the Presidency] also insisted and planned their own strategies and vowed to make Magu the chairman,” he said.

The Professor who was guest lecturer at the event many Nigerian politicians ‘organised criminal network.’

Earlier in his lecture on Leadership and Anti-Corruption, Prof Alemika had said nepotism deserves a more fierce fight than corruption because it is more dangerous than corruption.

He said Nigeria’s corruption problem began to move skyward after the abrogation, in 1979 by the then Head of State, General Olusegun Obasanjo, of corruption practices decree of 1975.

“Nobody knows why General Obasanjo hurriedly abrogated the decree before he left office… but he came back and established EFCC…’’, he said. the said are