ICYMI: MAGU VS MALAMI: Real reasons behind five years cold war

It is no more news that Ibrahim Magu isn't on top of things of the reins of power at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

Magu, a Commissioner of Police, held the fort because the Acting Chairman of the anti-graft agency for over five years, albeit without the approval of the Nigerian Senate which twice rejected his nomination to go the agency during a substantive capacity.

Though attempts were made to debunk report of his arrest on July 6 by operatives of the Department of State Service, DSS, however, Magu, remained in detention and was subsequently suspended from his position pending the conclusion of the investigation of allegations levelled against him by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN.

Both Magu and Malami were appointed in 2015 by President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC, few months after he successfully wrestled power faraway from then-incumbent President, Goodluck Jonathan and therefore the Peoples Democratic Party , PDP.

Considering that anti-corruption war stood as a serious plank of the agenda of the President Buhari-led administration, on November 9, 2015, Magu was appointed the Acting Chairman of the EFCC.

His appointment came after President Buhari sacked Ibrahim Lamorde who headed the agency under former President Jonathan.

Two days after Magu’s appointment, President Buhari, on Veterans' Day , 2015, made Malami the AGF to go the Ministry of Justice.

Statutorily, Magu’s EFCC is under Malami’s purview because the Minister of Justice.

Malami equally constitutionally supervises activities of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC, the DSS, National Drug enforcement Agency, NDLEA, National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons, NAPTIP, and therefore the Nigeria police , NPF.

Meanwhile, shortly after the primary meeting Malami held with heads of all the institutions, did the battle for supremacy and therefore the attendant resistance, began between him and Magu.