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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has  asked President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately relief the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu of his position following the allegations of diversion of recovered funds and fraudulent sale of assets seized by the agency made  by the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice  Abubakar Malami in a memo to the President

"The EFCC Chairman has lost all moral rectitude to preside over our nation’s anti-corruption agency to investigate and prosecute others until he comes clean of these
horrible allegations", the opposition party maintained

Also calling on  Mr. Magu to immediately step aside and submit himself for an independent investigation in order to clear his name,  the PDP  asserts that it is the worst national embarrassment in the history of Nigeria, that the head of anti-corruption agency in an administration that prides itself on zero tolerance for corruption, is being dragged on allegation of diversion of recovered funds and
fraudulent sale of assets seized by the agency.

The PDP recalled that President Buhari had insisted on Magu as the EFCC
Chairman despite his rejection by the Senate over reports by the
Department of State Services (DSS), which raised certain integrity
issues against him.

The party further recalled that the DSS report, which was read out on
the floor of the Senate, allegedly stated that “Magu has failed the
integrity test and will eventually constitute a liability to the
anti-corruption stand of the current government”.

Our party therefore holds the latest report coming from none other than
the Attorney General of the Federation; the EFCC’s supervising minister,
who believably has unhindered access to facts and documents related to
the anti-graft issues, must be received by President Buhari as a huge
demand on him to clean up the system.

"Our party enjoins the National Assembly to immediately constitute a joint ad-hoc committee and commence an independent investigation into these alleged disgraceful acts which has the potencies of collapsing our nation's integrity before the comity of nations", the party submitted in a press statement signed by Kola Ologbondiyan, its National Publicity Secretary