Sagay Replies APC, You Can’t Tell Me What To Do
Professor Itse Sagay, PACAC chairman[/caption]
Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse Sagay, has hit out at the leaders of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC).
The law Professor was reacting to a statement by the APC leadership caucus warning all appointees of President Muhammadu Buhari to desist from making inflammatory statements capable of fueling executive-legislature tension.
In a statement by its spokesperson, Bolaji Abdullahi, the APC specifically took exceptions to comments credited to Sagay, who described the National Assembly as childish and irresponsible, warning him to exercise restraint and desist from attacking the Senate.
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The party said: “In furtherance of the All Progressives Congress efforts to resolve the rift between the Executive and the National Assembly, the APC urged all government appointees to stop making statements that may further worsen the relationship between the two arms of government and derail the party’s efforts to make peace.
“Specifically, the party urges Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (PACAC) to exercise restraint and desist from making utterances that may be misconstrued as an attack on the institution of the National Assembly.”
Sagay, who was furious with the statement said the ruling party had no moral standing to tell him what to do since he was not an appointee of the party, adding that the APC is “just compromising with evil.”
Addressing journalists on Thursday in Abuja, Sagay said his views are in ‘consonance’ with President Muhammadu Buhari.
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He said: “I am not an appointee of the APC. I don’t know where they thought they had the authority to tell me what I should do. I certainly will not honour it (Senate’s summons).
“My view about what we are doing is in consonance with what the President is doing.
“They (APC) are just compromising with evil. That is what the party is doing and they certainly will not get me to do that.
“I will continue with the original programme of Buhari to get rid of corruption in this country. I will not compromise.”
Recall that Sagay had criticised the Senate for rejecting Ibrahim Magu as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
In reaction, the Senate had summoned the Professor of law asking him to appear before it but Sagay had fired back saying the Senate has no right to invite him as he was not a government appointee.
