APC already dead under Oyegun, only awaiting burial- Frank

Timi Frank, suspended Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), said in Abuja on Sunday that the APC’s internal woes meant that the party was already fatally damaged, and only just awaiting its imminent burial.

He stated that he had been vindicated by recent comments credited to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, and the Senate President Bukola Saraki, over issues affecting the party.

Frank made his views known via statement he issued, commendeding the two men for their courage to speak out against what he described as “undemocratic tendencies of the current National Working Committee led by Chief John Odigie-Oyegun.”

He stated that the APC “is dead but not yet buried under the current national chairman.”

Frank accused the working committee of “practically leading the party to destruction”, while contending that the real lovers of the APC were the ones baring their minds.

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It will be recalled that both Atiku and Saraki had only last week separately expressed critical views about the management of the APC by the current NWC under Odigie-Oyegun.

Atiku had decried what he described as the party’s inability to hold meetings of its different organs, or constitute institutions prescribed in the party’s constitution.

He stated that, “In the absence of those meetings and elections, their existing leadership, often under the direction of the executive at the state or federal level, fill the void.

“That’s not party building but party bullying. And it’s certainly not a way to democratise parties and aggregate their members’ opinions, interests and aspirations.”

On his part, Saraki, who spoke at the News Agency of Nigeria Forum two days later, said the APC leadership headed by Odigie-Oyegun, lacked focus.

Frank said, “I’m happy that some of our leaders are now speaking out against the lack of internal democracy I have been fighting for all this while.

“It is still not too late if others will shun sentiments and see reasons to quickly rescue the APC from the current handlers, who are merchants and without minds of their own.”

On the suspension of the APC chairman in Bayelsa State by the NWC, Frank condemned the decision, saying the party’s leadership had committed a grave error against its constitution.

He said, “If there are allegations against the state party chairman, it is expected of the NWC to set up a panel of enquiry to investigate these allegations and give the chairman in question a fair hearing and not suspend like in this case.”

Frank who was suspended last year by the NWC of the APC largely for his sustained unflattering comments about the party, has remained publicly critical of the party and its leadership, regularly seizing on unfolding developments to aim at key party targets.

 

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