The National Chairman of the party, Yabagi Sani, made the call on Thursday in Abuja, during the party’s National Executive Council meeting.
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Specifically, the Convener of the organisation, Ezenwa Nwagwu, told newsmen in Abuja that the reported involved former Secretary to Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, and former Director-General, National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke.
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, had on Tuesday in a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari accused Baru of awarding contracts totalling $25 billion without the input of the NNPC board, even as he described his conduct as an act of insurbodination
Osinbajo said this on Wednesday after he submitted the report of a panel, which he headed, that probed Lawal and the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ayo Oke, to President Muhammadu Buhari
This was made known by the Presidency in the early hours of Wednesday
The call followed the adoption of the recommendations in the report of the Senate Committee on Mounting Humanitarian Crisis in the North-East
The committee has been investigating the involvement of the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ayo Oke, and the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal over the Lagos cash and the PINE contract respectively
According to the report read on the floor during plenary on Wednesday, Lawal received back into his personal and company accounts about N450 million from the various contracts received by some companies
The report was still being read as at press time
Malami disclosed this on Tuesday after a meeting with President Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja
We pray for our President: that God will forgive him of his many sins, grant him good health and spare his life but we also warn those that are planning to harm our people to sheath their swords before they set off a chain of events that will cause an unprecedented, historic and massive conflagration on the African continent, the likes of which have never been seen before
The committee began its hearing on the contract scam in the North East since 10am on Thursday (today), but the suspended SGF failed to appear before it
The Chairman, Ad Hoc Committee on Mounting Humanitarian Crisis in the North-East, Senator Shehu Sani, confirmed receipt of a letter on the issue in an interview with newsmen on Wednesday
Lawal and Oke were suspended for their alleged roles in a grass cutting contract under the Presidential Initiative for the North East and the discovery of N13 billion cash in various currencies in a Lagos flat respectively
‘Once you fall out of line or favour, due courtesies may not be extended to you. I was instructed on many occasions to wait until certain persons left the Villa before issuing their sack statements. I once announced the disengagement of an important public official from the Presidential Wing of the airport as our aircraft taxied on the runway en route France’
The position of Umar, the Chairman of the Movement for Unity and Progress and former Military Governor of Kaduna State, was contained in a statement he issued on Sunday
President Muhammad Buhari earlier in the week set up the panel headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to probe the involvement of Lawal in a grass cutting contract under the Presidential Initiative on the North East and Oke for his agency’s involvement in the N13 billion cash found in a Lagos flat
Bolaji Adebiyi, the Director of Press in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, made this known in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday
In a release issued in Ado Ekiti on Thursday by the governor’s Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said it was becoming obvious that a group of cabal is exercising the powers of the President
The committee, headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, is probing suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, and the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ayo Oke