The Senate has warned nominees for the leadership of three Federal Government institutions not to resume work until their nominations are confirmed.
The affected nominees are Ali Usman, who was nominated as Director General of the Pension Commission, Dr. Mohammed Isah nominated as Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau, and Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, the Chairman nominee for the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission.
The upper chamber of the National Assembly alleged that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, as Acting President while President Muhammadu Buhari was on medical vacation in London, gave the directive asking the nominees to resume pending the confirmation of their appointments.
The chamber, however, stated that the directive was illegal.
A statement signed by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, on Saturday night read in part: “The leadership of the Senate has been inundated by enquiries from individuals from across the country, who want to know whether the statement from the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation to the effect that the nominees into the headship of PenCom, Code of Conduct Bureau and ICPC should resume work immediately pending their confirmation by the Senate was as a result of an understanding between the executive and the legislature.
“We will like to advise the Acting President, who was quoted to have given the directive for the resumption of the nominees, that the directive was illegal and not right. The Senate will not support any action that is not in line with the law.”
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