Tuesday 26 September 2017

Prof Itse Sagay is not a 'rogue elephant' please



Professor Vincent Okwechime is right.
A-H Sorry my abbreviation for the learned man who insulted Uncle Itse Sagay SAN those words too strong. Uncle Itse is probably old enough to be his Father. When your learned Dad or Learned Uncle is Talking you listen  you say it’s okay but in my respectful view learned Dad is wrong. Assuming Prof Itse Sagay was wrong in criticizing whoever!

Prof is a gender activist he said in his next life he would have more female children when others talk of more male children.
If Prof Sagay SAN were Senate President he would fight for the GEO Bill to be passed. And just see how the Senate refused to re-list the Gender Bill despite our position to please let it become law. A senate Dame Carol Ajie fiercely (independently – yes cos Uncle Itse opposed Saraki I didn’t) I fought that Senate must by itself elect its officers throughout NASS leadership election tussle and sustained that struggle until victory. And when CCT trial commenced against Saraki we wrote papers at the Prof Ben Nwabueze’s Centre for Constitutional Law studies and were published with the Grand Patriarch Prof Nwabueze SAN – click
The Kanu Agabis and JB Daudus were smiling to the Bank. Prof Ben Nwabueze and Ajie were there just intellectualizing throughout a struggle that took a heavy toll on scholarship.
incent Okwechime vincent.okwechime@hotmail.com [OurCountryNigeria] <OurCountryNigeria@yahoogroups.ca>
To:OurCountryNigeria@yahoogroups.ca
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Sep 26 at 8:39 AM
Mr Obomanu,

Mr Abdullahi is quoted as saying Prof
Sagay was "plucked from obscurity". Excuse me? A distinguished Prof of law who taught generations of lawyers? And one of the few to truly earn his 'SAN-ship' for books and other scholarly publications, for his sterling contribution to legal knowledge?

I won't let this pass without a fight.

Vincent






On Sep 26, 2017 7:44 AM, "Arnold Obomanu arnold_obomanu@yahoo.com [OurCountryNigeria]" <OurCountryNigeria@yahoogroups.ca> wrote:
 
If the excerpt below is correct, I think Mr Abdullahi simply returned a favour.

Prof Sagay called them "rogues" and explained what he meant. Mr Abdullahi called him back "rogue elephant" and explained what he meant.

Pedigree does not confer anyone the right to disrespect others.

“In the said interview, Sagay described the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as “the most unprincipled group of people” who are “encouraging and accepting rogues” in the party. He said: “When I say ‘rogues’, I don’t mean stealing. In literature, when you say someone is a rogue elephant, it means people who are running riot and destroying the party.”
“The Webster dictionary defines ‘rogue elephant’ as “one whose behaviour resembles that of a rogue elephant in being aberrant or independent.” Clearly if we have today, anyone in our government or, by extension, the party who feels accountable only to his own ego; who does not feel the need to bridle his tongue for the sake of anything that is higher than himself; who feels independent of everyone and every institution; that person is Professor Sagay.

Regards, Arnold 
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From: "Vincent Okwechime vincent.okwechime@hotmail.com [OurCountryNigeria]" <OurCountryNigeria@yahoogroups.ca>
To: "OurCountryNigeria@yahoogroups.ca" <OurCountryNigeria@yahoogroups.ca>
Cc: "blog2dove@gmail.com" <blog2dove@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2017 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: [OurCountryNigeria] APC slams Buhari's adviser, Sagay, calls him ‘rogue elephant’

 
Mr Abdullahi is himself of doubtful pedigree. And to issue such a cowardly statement confirms this fact. 

We all know him as a nonentity, a man who became minister at the sufferance of Mr Saraki. But isn't that the story of Nigeria, where those without pedigree who have suddenly occupied top positions on account of mediocrity, turn around to berate those far superior to themselves?

Mr Abdullahi is a lawyer, obviously an eaglet lawyer. Prof Sagay has been a Professor and Dean of Law since the 1960s from his days at the University of Ife, moving on to the University of Benin in the early 80s to establish the law faculty there as Dean and Prof.

He has  taught no less than six generations of lawyers, including SANs, judges, professors, former and serving governors, law makers, a judge of the ICC in the Hague and numerous others who have excelled in their chosen endeavours. Does being a minister and a failed one as Mr Abdullahi was suddenly confer a non existent pedigree on anyone?

Vincent Okwechime

On Sep 25, 2017 5:53 PM, "'Elombah.com' elstmmy@yahoo.com [OurCountryNigeria]" <OurCountryNigeria@yahoogroups.ca> wrote:
 

APC slams Buhari's adviser, Sagay, calls him ‘rogue elephant’


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