SAN FRANCISCO, February 14, (THEWILL) – River State Commissioner for Information and Communication, Dr Austin Tam-George, has described Prof Itse Sagay as opportunistic over his alleged comments condemning the judgement of the Supreme Court on the gubernatorial election.
Tam-George, in a statement titled “Prof. Sagay and the Death of Reason” flayed the trained lawyer saying he had lost his sense of irony.
“Prof Itse Sagay, one of the most opportunistic enablers of the corrupt regime of Mr. Rotimi Amaechi in Rivers State, seems to have finally found the courage to step out of his closet,” Tam-George wrote.
“Prof. Sagay alleged, without any shred of proof, that ‘Everybody knows that people like Wike climbed into the governorship seat over dead bodies and over blood of human beings. There were no elections, they wrote the results; the evidence is there’.
“For a trained lawyer, Prof Sagay has obviously lost his sense of irony. He criticizes the legally sound and unanimous judgement of the Supreme Court, by resorting to the silly and unsubstantiated hearsay mindlessly peddled by the APC.
“In the twilight of an unremarkable career, is Prof Sagay seeking to be the dubious originator of the sick jurisprudence of ‘Everybody Knows’, even without evidence?
“Is the Supreme Court no longer supreme in its judgements? Why is Sagay re-litigating a settled matter in the streets in such a disgraceful manner? Prof Itse Sagay may wish to re-read the history of the people of Rivers State. We never give up our sovereignty.”
Tam-George posited that it was an attempt by cowards from the All Progressives Congress (APC) against Nigeria’s justice system.
“We condemn this carefully orchestrated campaign of calumny launched by the APC and its cowardly surrogates. We call on the international community to restrain the All Progressives Congress from its desperate attempts to politically dominate our people and plunder the resources of our land.”
Story by David Oputah
