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Timi Frank ignoresAPC directive, says party conducting primaries of crisis

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8 years ago

September 23, 2016

Timi Frank ignoresAPC directive, says party conducting primaries of crisis

Timi Frank, Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has asked the leadership of the party to call for National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting to discuss party and national issues.

He said the party has only been busy conducting crisis ridden primaries. According to him, APC must concern itself with the present recession in the country and advise President Muhammadu Buhari on what to do about it.

Frank stated this in a statement he made public to newsmen, where he referred to himself as acting National Publicity Secretary of APC, even when the party officially stated that only its national Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun and the National Secretary, Mala Buni, can speak for it.

He said, “The only thing the current leadership of the party is known for is to conduct primary elections which were even characterised with crisis.

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“I expect the leadership of my party to be worried because the country is in recession, though the problems were inherited from the past administration of Goodluck Jonathan but we are here to solve the problems.

“That is why I am demanding an emergency NEC meeting where all the leaders of our party will sit face to face and tell themselves the truth, or invite experts to advise them on what quickly should be don, he said.e”

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