Magu vs Senate: In Nations Where There is Honour, People Don't Beg or Struggle to Serve, By Nnaemeka Obiaraeri

On Thursday, February 16, 2017, President Donald Trump's Nominee for Labour Secretary, Andrew Puzder, voluntarily withdrew himself from consideration for that position, when it dawned on him that he may not secure a simple majority vote of the US senators. He did not wait to be rejected. Donald Trump did not throw him back to the Senate, because he was convinced that in the whole of the US, they could easily pick 7000 other persons that can do a better job than Andrew Pudzer.

But cross over to another zoogeria in Africa, the Senate based on a report prepared by a sister security and anti-graft fighting agency, has for the second time rejected the nomination of Magu as the EFCC head. Rather than tow the path of honour and push forward the name of another person, even after the first rejection the Presidency returned his name to the senate to be rejected a second time based on a report by the same agency.

Rather than bow out, the same person rejected immediately held a press conference defiantly insisting that he will continue to act, in flagrant disregard of the senate pronouncement. Here in the same Nigeria, Bode Agusto's nomination as Finance minister was rejected by the senate. Late Yar Adua did not force him back to the senate. We are in a constitutional democracy. The Senate is empowered by the constitution and other body of law to confirm or reject the nomination of certain appointees of the executive arm of government. Whether the Senate is wrong or right is a matter for consideration for another time. But the law must be obeyed and respected. If we are not happy with the composition of the senate today and the character of the men that make up that red chambwers, then we have opportunities in 2019 to drain the swamp. It is a crying shame that we love and revel in lawlessness and impunity in this land.  I DARE ASK AGAIN, IS MAGU THE ONLY CAPABLE, COMPETENT, HONEST AND QUALIFIED NIGERIAN, WHO CAN SUSTAINABLY FIGHT GRAFT? Are there no other Nigerians from the six zones of nigeria that can do this job better?

Some people are even arguing that he should continue acting and all sorts. Does it mean that Ibrahim Magu is the only honest man amongst 180 million Nigerians with capacity, competency and integrity to fight graft in Nigeria? I have never seen a badly contrapted and scripted entity like this country. I have also never seen a people , whose majority are so irrational , impulsive and sentimental in reasoning. Shame! A majority without honour. Even in his glaring deficiencies,

President Donald Trump will make an intellectual saint when placed side by side with a majority of the political leaders across the spectrum in Nigeria.