Saraki Won’t Save You, Frank Tells Oyegun
The estranged Deputy National Publicity Secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has criticised the latest romance between the National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, and the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, describing it as a fruitless exercise.
Frank also said Oyegun’s acceptance that there was crisis in the party was enough reason for him to resign for helping to hasty the crisis.
Oyegun had invited Saraki to the APC national secretariat last Wednesday for the first time since his emergence as the Senate President 18 months ago.
In a statement issued yesterday, Frank asked the national chairman to convene a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting where all the leaders would sit at a round table and “tell themselves the truth.”
Frank urged the Senate President to be careful “and watch his back in the latest moves in order not to lose confidence of some Nigerians and party members who believed in him when the likes of Oyegun did not.
“So, I believe that this party urgently needs a new national chairman that would set up a strong reconciliation committee to correct all the abnormalities Oyegun did to APC.
“Until this is done, the ongoing re-alignment which I warned my party against might take advantage of the current crisis in APC and weaken it ahead of future elections.”
At the meeting, the national chairman agreed that some of the first steps taken by his leadership created problems in the party.
Frank said: “It is a shame for Oyegun to go back to his vomit, having been used to create the confusions earlier which are now beyond his capacity to redeem.
“This is a national chairman who did everything possible to ensure that Saraki, who is now a rally point, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, do not emerge what they are today when some of us believe in them.
“Again, God has vindicated me over most of these crises which I have been talking about that Oyegun refused to admit as at that early stage, but finally, he has agreed, but it is too late.
“It is clear that most of these crises he’s personally responsible for, require a new competent hand to deal with before it is too late for the party.
“Instead of inviting Saraki for a romance, why can’t the national chairman call for a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting where all the leaders would sit at a round table and tell themselves the truth. The year is going to an end and Oyegun does not see leadership meeting as important.
“It is bitter but I must say it that practically, all the decisions taken under Oyegun are illegal because majority of our national leaders are not carried along as it is stated in the party constitution that regularly leadership meeting where decisions are meant to be taken should be held.”