Timi Frank dares Oyegun to popularity contest within APC

Under attack Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Timi Frank, has said an attempt by the party leadership to go ahead to suspend or sack him will destroy the party.

According to him, he is more popular in the party, and would receive more support from members than the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun.

He said, “Any attempt to suspend or expel me from APC will break the party. I dare the national chairman to convene NEC meeting and see who will be removed between two of us”.

Frank, who stated this in Abuja on Thursday, was reacting to the news that Chief Odigie-Oyegun-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the party on Wednesday endorsed the recommendations of a panel set up by the South-South Zone of the party.

The panel in its recommendation had called for the immediate suspension and subsequent dismissal of Frank from the party. His offence was making reproachful comments about the party and its chairman on many occasions.

The APC deputy publicity secretary vowed he was going to sue Oyegun for contempt of court because the latest announcement was in contempt of a subsisting court order ordering both parties to maintain status quo ante.

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Frank who made this known in a statement he signed and released himself, dared the party leadership to make public minutes of Tuesday’s NWC meeting where the alleged conclusion to uphold the recommendations of the panel was decided.

….“The claim by one of Odigie-Oyegun’s foot soldiers, (Mr.) Oji Ngofa that NWC had taken a decision to hold on with the report of a kangaroo zonal committee that recommended my suspension was a blatant lie,” Frank said.
By Ebere Ndukwu …

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