The All Progressives Congress (APC) has hits out at Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, describing him as arrogant, who lacks respect for President Muhammadu Buhari:

President Muhammadu Buhari and Professor Itse Sagay (SAN)

Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, National Publicity Secretary of the APC in a statement disclosed that: “In the said interview, Sagay described the leadership of the APC as ‘the most unprincipled group of people’ who are ‘encouraging and accepting rogues’ in the party. Sagay 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.”

“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 put 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.”