The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has come to the
rescue of Professor Itse Sagay (SAN), who was alleged to
have made some negative remark about President
Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war.



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Professor Itse Sagay allegedly described President Buhari’s
anti-corruption efforts as “selective” and “cosmetic” and went
ahead to accuse the APC and its members of corruption
amongst others.


Leadership reports that the respected legal scholar in an
interview published in the Nigerian Tribune of Sunday,
December 20, was quoted to have described President Buhari’s
anti-corruption efforts as “selective” and “cosmetic” and went
ahead to accuse the APC and its members of corruption
amongst others.

The APC in its reaction contained in a statement issued in
Abuja, on Monday, December 21, described the said interview
as ‘concocted.’



The party said: “We are mindful of the axiom: When you fight
corruption, it fights back. For the record, Mr. Sagay, a
professor of law, well known constitutional lawyer and head of
President Buhari’s Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption,
says the newspaper’s interview credited to him is concocted
and represents a desperate attempt to discredit President
Buhari’s anti-corruption war. He challenged the reporter and
paper’s editors to provide the public with a tape recording of
the so-called interview.”


The statement further hinted that the party’s national
chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, also used the medium to
plead with Nigerians who acknowledged the advantage in the
fight President Buhari’s government is waging against
corruption, to remain resolute and not be distracted by this
plot to discredit it by agents of corruption.


“President Buhari in his May 29 inaugural speech declared, “I
belong to everybody and I belong to nobody”; that position
remains unchanged. The syndicated and sponsored campaign
suggesting a “selective” and “cosmetic” anti-corruption fight
by the present administration should be seen as a plot meant
to distract the citizenry from the successful ongoing war to
catch looters and recover Nigeria’s stolen common wealth,” it
said.


The party in a reaction to the allegations by the sponsors of
the concocted interview that members of the APC are corrupt,
pointed out that the sponsors of the concocted interview to
prove its claims.



APC said the country and the international organization are
still amazed over the mouthwatering stealing and diversion of
public funds earmarked to buy needed arms and ammunition
for our Armed Forces to fight the Boko Haram terrorists group
and secure the nation’s territorial integrity.


“The president’s assurance that the Central Bank of Nigeria
(CBN) will be encouraged to publish details of voluntary return
of looted funds to the federal government’s coffers is evidently
causing panic in the camp of looters,” it said.


In a related development, many members of the ruling All
Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo state are perfecting
plans to defect to the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP).


https://www.naij.com/674339-apc-reacts-itse-sagay-alleged-condemnation-buharis-anti-corruption-war.html

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