By Nathaniel Zacchaeus, Abuja
President Bola Tinubu yesterday urged the Senate to screen for confirmation, the appointment of Musa Aliyu, a lawyer for appointment as the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).
Aliyu is the current Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice in Jigawa State.
The President also asked the red chamber to confirm Saka Bolaji Suleiman and Prof Gaji Dantata as members of the Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC).
The requests of the President were contained in two separate letters addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio and read at plenary by Deputy Senate President Jibrin Barau who presided.
Tinubu said, “In compliance with the provision of section 3, subsection 6 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission, ICPC, Establishment Act 2000,
“I am pleased to present for confirmation, by the Senate, the appointment of Mr. Musa Aliyu as Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission, ICPC.”
The appointment of Aliyu, according to a statement by the Special Adviser), Media and Publicity to the President, Ajuri Ngelale, last week, was sequel to the request of the outgoing chairman of the commission, Bolaji Owasanoye, whose statutory tenure remains over three months, “to proceed on pre-end of tenure leave beginning on 4 November 2023.”
Owasanoye’s tenure is statutorily due to expire on 3 February 2024.
In a similar vein, the President said, “By the provision of section 154 of section 1 and 3, paragraph 12 of Part 1, of the third schedule of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, as amended, I am pleased to present for confirmation by the Senate the appointments of the under-listed two persons as members of the Federal Judicial Service Commission.
“Commissioner, number one, Saka Bolaji Suleiman, and number two, Professor Gaji Dantata.”
Barau referred the two executive requests to the Committee of the Whole for consideration.
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*As Yohanna takes oath as Adamawa North Senator
Meanwhile, the Deputy President of the Senate has sworn in Amos Yohana as Senator for Adamawa North Senatorial District to replace Senator Ishaku Abbo, who was sacked by the Court of Appeal.
Yohana was sworn in yesterday during the plenary session presided over by Barau.
The Court of Appeal sacked Abbo, a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on October 16, 2023.
The three-member panel presided over by Justice C.E. Nwosu-Iheme, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to issue a Certificate of Return to Yohanna as the duly elected lawmaker representing the area in the National Assembly.
Yohanna, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was handed over instruments of office and documents by the deputy president of the Senate to mark the official swearing-in.
