Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

8th Assembly Frustrated Magu’s Appointment – Alaafin

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III has attributed the failure of the last National Assembly to confirm the appointment of Ibrahim Magu as the substantive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, as a way of hiding the ‘skeleton in their cupboard’. The first class monarch made the declaration in his palace on Thursday, August 1, 2019, when the Ibadan Zonal Head of the Commission, Friday Ebelo, led a delegation to pay him a courtesy visit. ‘The eighth National Assembly tried, they did everything possible not to get (Ibrahim) Magu appointed. Why? It is bec…