Tobi Adebayo
Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Navy, Yusuf Gagdi has said that President Muhammadu Buhari has the power to sack or retain the embattled Minister for Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami.

Gagdi said this while featuring on a Television Continental (TVC) programme, Your View, on Monday.

“President Buhari has the right to either give Pantami a prerogative of mercy or to sack him. That is his own power just as President Trump before the end of his tenure decided to forgive criminals in the United States, which was unacceptable to some democrats. It is the same democracy that we practice in Nigeria,” he stated.

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Yusuf Gagdi also said that the House of Representatives did not receive any report on Pantami’s extremist views from the Department of State Services during his ministerial screening.

“I don’t think it is true that there was anything in that report regarding Pantami to the National Assembly, quote me anywhere,” the lawmaker added.