Presidency mum as APC fires back at Sagay 26 September 2017 | Page 5

Vanguard, TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 2017—5
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Presidency mum as APC fires
What Sagay said
back at Sagay
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President Muhammadu
Buhari’s anti-corruption
fight.
In attacking Prof. Sagay,
who the National Working
Committee, NWC, of the
APC described as a ‘rogue
elephant’, the party also
warned all appointees of
President Buhari to show
respect and decorum to
the party which won the
victory that made them
occupy the offices they
hold.
While
normal
Presidency sources kept
mum on the issue, the
Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, described the in-
fighting in the APC as a
manifestation of the lack
of common ideology by its
adherents who were only
joined by a desperation to
take power without
having a programme for
the country.
Former Minister of
Special Duties in the
Goodluck
Jonathan
administration, Kabiru
Taminu,
said:
“No
comment, na dem dem.”
The assertion by the
APC NWC was, however,
countered by the party’s
Deputy National Publicity
Secretary, Mr. Timi Frank,
who said he agreed with
Sagay in his claims that
the party was weak,
saying if it were not so,
Sagay, an appointee of
the government would not
have had the guts to
criticise the party and its
agents in government.
The party in a strongly
worded statement issued
by the National Publicity
Secretary, Mallam Bolaji
Abdullahi, castigated
Sagay as a ‘ rogue
elephant’ determined to
wreak maximum havoc on
the party, insisting that he
had nothing constructive
to offer th e President and
the nation.
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knows where the roof is leaking.
The attack on Sagay,
chairman
of
the
Presidential Advisory
Committee
Against
Corruption,
PACAC,
followed assertions by
Sagay in a national
newspaper, last weekend,
in which he dismissed the
APC leadership as lily-
livered,
weak
and
incompetent.
Sagay had said: “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.
APC fires back
Responding yesterday,
the APC said: “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.”
Continuing, the party
said: “Asked by the
interviewer if he would
stop speaking if the
President asks him to stop
speaking, he said: "Yes,
he is my employer. If he
tells me to stop talking, I’ll
stop talking. But I have
certain