Chairman of the Presidential
Advisory Committee on Anti-corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse Sagay (SAN), has
come under attack from the national leadership of the ruling All Progressives
Congress.
The APC said the only reason
Sagay occupies the position he has today was because the ruling party won the
presidential election. The statement which was signed by Mallam Bolaji
Abdullahi, national publicity secretary read:
"Our attention has been
brought to an interview published on pages 46-47 of The Nation Newspaper of
Sunday, September 24, 2017, granted by the Chairman of the Presidential
Advisory Committee on Anti-corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse Sagay (SAN).
"In the said interview,
Sagay described the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as “the
most unprincipled group of people” who are “encouraging and accepting rogues”
in the party. He said: “When I say ‘rogues’, I don’t mean stealing. In literature,
when you say someone is a rogue elephant, it means people who are running riot
and destroying the party.”
"The Webster dictionary
defines ‘rogue elephant’ as “one whose behaviour resembles that of a rogue
elephant in being aberrant or independent.” Clearly if we have today, anyone in
our government or, by extension, the party who feels accountable only to his
own ego; who does not feel the need to bridle his tongue for the sake of
anything that is higher than himself; who feels independent of everyone and
every institution; that person is Professor Sagay.
"Asked by the interviewer if
he would stop speaking if the President asks him to stop speaking, he said:
“Yes, he is my employer. If he tells me to stop talking, I’ll stop talking. But
I have certain rights too that I can exercise in addition to that, because I’m
not going to be in a position where I am impotent. So, I must obey him, but I
can go beyond that and obey myself too. That’s it.” Framed in another way, what
Sagay is saying here is that, no matter what is at stake, he would rather resign
than obey the President if the President tries to restrain him. This is the
quintessential rogue elephant behaviour.
"In his sheer arrogance, he
forgets that it is impossible for him to call out the leadership of the party
as “weak” and “unprincipled” without indicting the president, who is the leader
of the party and has the fundamental responsibility to build the party.
"If Sagay had any iota of respect for the
man who dug him back from inevitable oblivion and puts him in a position in
which he now feels superior to everyone, he would channel his opinions and
advice to the President on how to make the party stronger and more principled.
It appears however that Sagay does not have anything constructive to say about
anything. He only knows how to tear down and assault everyone and everything.
"We want to remind Sagay and
all other appointees of our government that the only reason they occupy their
current position today is because the APC won the election. There is,
therefore, a matter of honour to show decorum and respect for the party and its
leadership. You cannot love the fruit and hate the tree that produced it."
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What's the fruit and what's the tree? If certain issues within the party aren't being done right Sagay must talk, that's part of his human rights. Sagay's observations are supposed to be put at public domain, he doesn't have to tell them to Buhari before making them public. Question: Is Buhari aware of the Senators' salaries and all allowances? If Buhari knew of the emoluments of the Senators, then what did he do about it? If he didn't know, then something isn't right. So, your your complaints against Sagay amounts to corruption in another name. And more.
ReplyDeleteAblullah is from ilorin working for senator bukola and not for the best interest of apc
ReplyDeleteApc Hates Truth.
ReplyDeleteThis is the problem of Nigeria. PRIORITIES. Your sense of partisanship is stronger than your sense of Patriotism. Sagay is a Nigerian First. APC has no principles and will invite whoever to remain relevant. That is why they are now complaining about Sagay.
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