The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has urged President Muhammadu Buhari not to attend the emergency National Executive Council, NEC, meeting summoned by controversial Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Victor Giadom.
Sagay believed the President’s attendance would give a validation to the “mischievous legal advice” in backing Victor Giadom.
The Professor emphasised that Giadom had no power to summon a NEC meeting, considering that as he was the Deputy National Secretary, he was not in line to succeed as the National Chairman.
It would be recalled that President Buhari had given Victor Giadom the go-ahead to act as the National Chairman of the APC, citing his decision to be backed by the law.
Sagay told The Nation: “I’m stunned by this turn of events. How can a deputy national secretary have the ambition to be the chairman of a party when you have deputy chairmen and vice-chairmen?
“That is why it is absurd. It does not make sense. His position makes it impossible for him to be the acting national chairman.
“The legal advice the President got is mischievous in the extreme because there is no court order to extend since it does not exist.
