Phrase, idiom, expression suited for putting one's own requirement saying that it is instruction coming from someone else

Context

My boss one day called me in his office and said that now i have to include tasks 3,5,6 to complete the entire assignment. Traditionally, the usual sequence of task was from 1 through 10, but management had stopped 3,5 and 6 many years ago.

The boss said it is management that has instructed this, but he does not know that i am among the panel to make amendments to the procedure if anything is pushed for a change. Thus this is his own quirkiness that he wants to impose this additional requirement in the name of management (without their approval). So I want to know what is the phrase, idiom, expression suited for putting his own requirement in saying that it is management’s instruction.

I feel this would count as duplicate, but I tried searching for this and really couldn’t ascertain whether alternative word like name dropping completes my requirement particularly (it could but i have no way to ascertain). So it stands to verify with expert crowd’s responses.