BEVERLY HILLS, December 08, (THEWILL) – Suspended Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Timi Frank, has reacted to Wednesday’s parley between the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and the party’s national chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, telling that latter that courting the former will not stave off calls for his resignation as chairman of of the APC.
In a statement issued by him on Thursday, Frank knocked the APC National Chairman for taking recourse to Saraki after doing everything possible to ensure that the ambition of the latter to become Senate President does not see the light of day.
Oyegun had, during the meeting, identified series of initial missteps taken shortly after the 2015 elections by the leadership of the party as the root of the internal crisis rocking the governing party, adding that some unfinished businesses among political bigwigs who played a key role in the emergence of the party compounded the crisis.
But Frank described Oyegun’s remark that there is crisis in the party as an admission of guilt, expressing delight over the chairman’s acceptance of the fact that the party is now crisis-ridden. He then urged the Chairman to take the next step and resign “because the latest romance with Senate President Bukola Saraki is a campaign after election.”
The statement reads in part, “It is a shame for Chief Oyegun to go back to his vomit having been used to create some of these confusion earlier which are now beyond his capacity to redeem.
“This is a National Chairman who did everything possible to ensure that Bukola Saraki, who is now a rallying point and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara did not emerge their positions when some of us believed in them.
“Again, God has vindicated me over most of these crisis I have been talking about that Chief Oyegun refused to admit as at that early stage but finally he has agreed but it is too late for him.
“It is clear that most of these crisis he is personally responsible for, require a new competent hand to heal the wounds before it is too late for the party.
“Instead of inviting Saraki for a romance, why can’t the National Chairman call for a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting where all the leaders will sit at a round table and tell themselves the truth? I believe that this party urgently needs a new National Chairman that will set up a strong reconciliation committee to correct all the abnormalities Oyegun did to APC. Until this is done, the ongoing re-alignment which I warned my party about might take advantage of the current crisis in APC and weaken it ahead of future elections.”
The embattled deputy spokesman of the APC went on to advise the Senate President to be careful “and watch his back in the latest moves so as not to lose confidence of some Nigerians and party members who believed in him when the likes of Oyegun did not”.
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