STOP PLAYING TO THE GALLERY; ONUESOKE TELLS SAGAY

Sunny Onuesoke 

Chief Sunny Onuesoke, a philanthropist and also a former governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has challenged the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Itse Sagay to show Nigerians where it is written in the Constitution, that you must visit the United States of America before you can become President of the country.


Onuesoke, in a statement released by his Special Assistant on New Media, Agadagba Steven, expressed concerns that Sagay has formed the habit of dabbling into matters that is of no concern to him.

Describing the PACAC chairman as a man with high proclivity to spread hate speeches, Agadagba stated that, Prof Itse Sagay in a interview, said that the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, GCON, has disqualified himself from the presidential race because, the former Vice President had said, he can be President without going to the US.

However, in his reaction to the statement credited to the PACAC chairman, Onuesoke challenged him to tell Nigerians where it is stated in the Nigerian Constitution that you must visit the US before you can become President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

According to the statement, "ordinarily, we would have ignored Sagay whose statements and attitude portray him as a man with high proclivity for spreading hate speeches and a penchant for spreading falsehood instead of a  learned Professor of Law.

"However, in his characteristic way of dishing out falsehood to unsuspecting Nigerians, he showed that he deliberately wants to undermine the reputation of the former Vice President, being a frontline contender for the Office of the President. Therefore we believe he should be put in his proper place".

"As a Professor of Law, he should be bold enough to tell Nigerians where it is stated in the constitution that you must visit the US before you can become the president of Nigeria or what is the connection between going to the US and becoming the President of Nigeria".

"What significant outcome can he point to, since his paymaster, President Buhari visited the US? How many investments has the US brought into the country or invested after numerous visits? Or, is it the embargo US placed on Nigeria by not buying our crude oil?

"Is visiting the US now a yardstick to determine who is qualified to run the presidential race? It is glaring to all that, Prof. Itse Sagay is just playing to the gallery in order to please his paymaster, who has admitted in public that it has become difficult to defend this administration", Onuesoke queried Sagay.

It would be recalled that this is not the first time the PACAC chairman is coming under the flaks for his controversial statements which has made many describe the professor of law as going too far with his defense of the Buhari's administration.