Beyond 2017, APC may become history, APC deputy spokesman warns

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Deputy Publicity Secretary, Comrade Timi Frank has predicted that the party will collapse in 2017 except President Muhammadu Buhari takes urgent actions to arrest such development.

According to him, APC could cease to exist totally in 2019 from whatever is left of the party from the implosion it will suffer in 2017.

Frank who stated this in Abuja on Tuesday when he reviewed recent happenings in the party said, “You are aware that there are several realignments going on now in the country and my party has only now and January 2017 to put its house in order. If we don’t harmonise all the contending interests, some of us would be exploring new avenues to pursue our various political agenda.”

The APC spokesman said that President Buhari is the only person who can rescue the party, adding that the only way he would do that would be by intervening in the issues in the party supporting calls for the resignation of the party’s national Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun.

Frank called on Buhari to recall how Chief Odigie-Oyegun as chairman of ANPP frustrated him out of the party, which made him (Buhari) to form the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC).

He said, “The same thing is now happening in the APC and Mr President has to act fast because that same thing that drove him out of the ANPP then is also about to drive some people out of the APC because of Oyegun.”

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Insisting he was speaking the mind of most members and other stakeholders of the party, Frank said, “At the appropriate time, more leaders of the party would speak out.

“I will also consult the governors (of our party) to make them understand the danger inherent in their silence in the face of the wave of crisis that has enveloped the party. This is like a rescue mission I am about to embark on. This struggle to rescue our party is not personal. It is because I love this party so much and I am a very loyal party man and I believe in this party.

“I am also going to pay a visit to our former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar; I will also visit Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and all the past national chairmen that made the merger to work. I am going to pay visit to my own former national chairman, Alhaji Kawu Baraje, of the then New PDP, Chief Bisi Akande of the then ACN, Chief Ogbonnaya Onu of the then ANPP, Chief Tony Momoh of defunct CPC and Gov Rochas Okorocha who led a section of the APGA to make the APC.”

By Ebere Ndukwu …

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