Without Buhari, Nigeria may have ceased to exist – Itse Sagay

Professor of law and chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Itse Sagay, on Monday said Nigerians have a lot to be grateful for in electing Buhari their president last year. He said this after a presentation of the committee’s report on a new legal framework for fighting‎ corruption.

His words: “We know of some governors who are not supposed to be there, but found themselves on the bloody seats with the help of some judges. If Buhari had not come, I don’t think there would have been a country. Zimbabwe would have been better.
The government is operating on a zero budget. We need the judiciary, but we need an upright judiciary. If we don’t have a judiciary with moral integrity, then we don’t have a democracy. No agency would have dared to arrest Oputa, Obaseki, Eso, and some others.
They gave judgments against the military governments. The moral authority of the golden era of the supreme court has crashed. No judge should be guilty of corruption; if that happens then they have reduced themselves to our level, so they should take whatever happens. Let us be fair to this country.”