The
national leadership of the governing All Progressives Congress has issued the
statement below, launching a blistering attack on the Chairman of the
Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse
Sagay (SAN).
In the statement, the party described Mr. Sagay
as arrogant and a rougue elephant who has no respect for even President
Muhammadu Buhari.
The APC says it is responding to an interview
Mr. Sagay granted The Nation’s newspaper where he criticized the leadership of
the fold as “running riot and destroying the party.”
“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.”
SIGNED:
Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi
National Publicity Secretary
All Progressives Congress (APC)
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