Tag: Sagay
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How Buhari will fund 2019 elections should Saraki fail to pass INEC budget – Sagay
Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (PACAC) Chairman Prof Itse Sagay (SAN) on Wednesday said the Federal Government could fund next year’s general election by invoking the doctrine of necessity should the National Assembly fail to pass the budget. According to him, the overriding necessity of elections and survival of democracy supersede the National Assembly’s powers…
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Adeosun too good to be sacked, I don’t bloody care if she did NYSC or not – Sagay
The Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) Chairman, Itse Sagay (SAN), has downplayed the controversy about the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate of Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun. Speaking on the sidelines of a workshop on the UK Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO), Sagay also said President Muhammadu Buhari cannot afford to sack Adeosun. “I…
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Saraki should resign as a matter of honour, says Sagay
Senate President Bukola Saraki should step down as a matter of honour, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) Chairman Itse Sagay (SAN) said yesterday. According to him, it will require two-thirds majority of available Senators to unseat Saraki. Prof. Sagay, however, emphasised that the Senate President’s defection from the All Progressives Congress (APC), the platform…
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Corruption ratings: Transparency International report erroneous – Sagay
The chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof Itse Sagay (SAN) on Thursday faulted the latest Corruption Perception Index (CPI) released by Transparency International (TI) describing it as ‘erroneous’. The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, uses a scale of 0 to 100,…
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You were desperate for third term; Buhari also deserves re-election, Sagay replies Obasanjo
The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Itse Sagay, has said former President Obasanjo who was desperate for a third term in office in 2003 does not have the audacity to stop/advice President Muhammadu Buhari not to seek reelection if he so pleases in 2019. The presidential aid also described Obasanjo’s criticism…
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Dead appointees: ‘Buhari can’t be knocking doors to ask who was dead or alive’ Sagay chides critics
Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) chairman Prof Itse Sagay (SAN) yesterday condemned those criticising President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) for naming dead men among board appointees. Sagay said the outrage amounts to making a mountain out of a molehill. The professor of law said he was even angry with the…
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Trouble in APC fold: Party blasts Buhari’s corruption adviser, Sagay calls him ‘rogue elephant’
The national leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress has lambasted Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse Sagay (SAN) describing him as a ‘rogue elephant.’ The party’s publicity secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, stated this in a statement he issued on Monday. The APC says it is responding to an interview…
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APC is a failure – Sagay
…backs DHQ for declaring IPOB a terrorists organisation …blasts Senate for outrageous allowances The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof Itse Sagay (SAN) on Monday said the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, leadership is weak, and has failed in its responsibilities. Sagay who spoke in an interview with The Nation on…
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NASS members are locusts, they want to suck our resources dry – Sagay
The row between the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN) and the National Assembly is far from being over as he (Sagay) has again lashed out at the National Assembly describing them as “a merciless and ruthless organisation” with no value. TheNewsGuru.com reports that Sagay made remarks at the…