Professor Itse Sagay, Chairman of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption war has reacted angrily to the gag order imposed on him and others by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC on matters related to the National Assembly.
The APC had in a statement yesterday asked Sagay who had been engaged in war of words with the upper chamber of the National Assembly over a statement he made impugning the integrity of the lawmakers to stop talking as part of moves by the party to halt the deterioration in the relationship between the executive and the National Assembly.
The National Assembly had invited Sagay over the statement, but the Professor of law had insisted that the lawmakers have no power to invite him.
But reacting to the APC order, Professor Sagay said the party cannot tell him what to do.
He disagreed with the party’s statement that he was against the plans of President Buhari and insisted he would not honour the Senate’s summon.
His words: “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.”