By Ummi Ismeeal,
Minna
The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Professor Sagay Itsejuwa Esanjumi, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) to sack those he described as ‘‘cabals’’ in his cabinet.
He accused them of being the clog in the wheel of the present dispensation.
Sagay made the declaration in an interview after he delivered convocation lecture of the Federal University of Technology (FUT), at the Gidan-kwano permanent campus, Minna Niger State.
He said, “The cabals are not just holding down this government and giving this government a bad name, they have no business being in the Presidency and that is why they should be fished out and flushed out before it is too late for this government”.
Sagay, who however, declined comments when asked to mention the names of the cabals, insisted, “They are not helpful to President and the government. Everybody is complaining about them”.
On the Maina saga, Sagay explained that those behind his recall to the civil service should also be identified and punished as well because the matter is still very fresh and has not been swept under the carpet.
“The problem with the former chairman of the Presidential Task Force did not start with the President Muhammadu Buhari administration,” Sagay pointed out, “but that the government was determined to bring the problems to an end to the satisfaction of all Nigerians.”
Apparently worried by criticisms of the Buhari administration of poor performance, Sagay advised: “Nigeria should stay with President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
“Buhari and Osinbajo have absolute integrity, if we don’t use of them now I don’t know when next we will have leaders like them”.
The President, according to Sagay, “should be firmer than what we are experiencing today and if we must get to the promise land, we need a little dose of autocracy or firmness to develop as a Third World country.”
