Replacement for Lai Mohammed: Your statement was reckless, Timi Frank tells Oyegun

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has drawn the ire of the party’s deputy national publicity secretary, Comrade Timi Frank, over plans to organise fresh primaries to pick a successor for Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the spokesman of the party, saying the stament was reckless.

Odigie-Oyegun, had said at a news conference that it had been difficult to fill the vacumn left by Mohammed, who is now the Minister of Information and Culture, hinting of plans to pick a replacement through fresh primaries.

He said: “The issue is getting somebody that can be as close as possible to the outstanding performance of the present Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed.”

However, Frank, in a statement on Wednesday,  described the APC chairman’s statement as “reckless, baseless and unwarranted.”

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He said: “I am the deputy national publicity secretary of the party and as such can act in the absence of the national publicity secretary. I am also qualified to act as a substantive publicity secretary of the party”.

Continuing, Frank, who has always been at loggerheads with the leadership of the APC, said the statement was “malicious, insulting and meant to discredit my person as well as the party, by saying it is difficult to fill the office from the present calibre of party men and women we have.”

“As a good party man, Chief Odigie-Oyegun ought to have informed the public about the next convention date to fill all vacancies,”  and not use the medium to discredit him and the party, Frank fumed.

Calling on Odigie-Oyegun to desist from making further malicious statements, Frank said: “I like to use this medium to call on him to retrieve the statement”.

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