The All Progressives Congress (APC), has attacked Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse Sagay, describing him as ‘rogue elephant’.

The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, launched the scathing attack while reacting to statements credited to Prof. Sagay in a national newspaper.

In the controversial 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.

“As for the leadership of the APC, I think they are the most unprincipled group of people. They are lily-livered, weak, and cannot run any organisation. The whole party is collapsing under them. They cannot control anybody. Because they cannot control anybody, they’re now in fact encouraging and accepting ‘rogues’. 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.

“They’re pampering them, saying: ‘Let’s not annoy them too much’, but they’re destroying the APC house. So, I think the APC leadership is weak, is too compromising and is certainly a failure as far as I’m concerned.”

Asked if he would stop speaking on the orders of the President, 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.”

APC described Sagay’s utterance as classic act of insubordination to the president and the ruling party. “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”.

The statement read further: “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.

“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.

https://orientdailynews.com/analysis/national_analysis/apc-attacks-presidential-anti-graft/

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