The President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday forwarded a correspondence to the Senate regarding the Senate resolution requesting the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal to resign his position for breach of his oath of office.
In the correspondence read at plenary by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, the President said he is unable to approve the recommendation of the Senate to remove and prosecute the SGF on the basis of the Senate Ad-hoc Committee report dated 15th December, 2016.
According to Mr Buhari, the report forwarded to the presidency by the Senate which informed the decision that Mr. Lawal should resign and be prosecuted by the relevant authority was an interim report as against a final report which ought to have been presented to the Senate in a plenary for adoption as a binding and final report before submission to the Presidency given the weight of allegations made in the report.
Also the signing of the interim report by three out of nine members of the Committee according to the President makes it a minority report of the Senate Committee and not a Committee report.
