Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse Sagay, has said the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC cannot dictate what to say to him as an appointee of the President on matters of national importance.
TheNewsGuru.com reports that the APC had in a statement on Wednesday warned Sagay, who had been engaged in war of words with the upper chamber of the National Assembly over a statement he made challenging the integrity of the lawmakers to stop his unsavoury comments henceforth.
The party said the decision was part of moves to halt the deterioration in the relationship between the executive and the National Assembly.
But according to Sagay, the party has no moral standing to tell him what to do since he was not and appointee of the party but Buhari’s.
He further said that as far as he knows, his views have been in tandem with that of the President.
Sagay who addressed journalists on Thursday in Abuja, reiterated his resolve to dishonour Senate’s summon, adding that the APC has started to obey evil.
He said: “I am not an appointee of the APC. I don’t know where they thought they had the authority to tell me what I should do. I certainly will not honour it (Senate’s summons).
“My view about what we are doing is in consonance with what the President is doing.
“They (APC) are just compromising with evil. That is what the party is doing and they certainly will not get me to do that.
“I will continue with the original programme of Buhari to get rid of corruption in this country. I will not compromise.”
TheNewsGuru.com reports that the National Assembly had summoned Sagay over the his ‘unguarded’ comments concerning the Senate.
However, Sagay had insisted that the lawmakers lacked the powers to summon him.