The All Progressives Congress (APC)'s deputy national publicity secretary, Comrade Timi Frank, , has called on the party's national
chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun to
resign.
Frank also blamed the national chairman and some members of the APC's NWC for the crisis in the party, accusing
them of taking sides before the election of leaders of National Assembly.
He said it was unfortunate that the leadership of the party
played hide and seek and over-indulged in the choice of Senate President and
House of Representatives Speaker, thereby provoking the crisis of confidence
currently rocking the party.
The deputy national publicity secretary of APC said that the
national chairman, Odigie-Oyegun did not consult well before going ahead with
the mock election to choose APC's candidates for the office of the Principal
Officers of the National Assembly.
The party had kicked against the emergence of Senator Bukola
Saraki and Hon. Yakubu Dogara who emerged last week against the official
position of the APC.
Senator Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila were favoured by the party after the initial
holding of a mock election won by the duo, to occupy the seats.
Frank who deputises for Lai Muhammed in the party, spoke
Monday in Abuja.
He said that the
national chairman and leadership of the party ought to resign having embarked
on an embarrassing mock election that never had the blessings of the entire
party's leadership, more so that the leadership exhibited gross incompetence to
manage the National Assembly issue until it blew out of hand.
"If my party could not keep to the promise of change,
then we must correct them and make them to keep to that. I have no fear or
favour than to say that the current leadership of the party has practically
failed. With this incident alone, the chairman should resign from his position
after taking a position against the people and the people’s position has
finally come to stay.
"In the Western world, by today the party's national
chairman would have resigned honourably. Not just the national chairman but the
entire leadership that took this decision of conducting mock election against
the outcry of the larger members of the party. Against the bigger picture of
Nigerians, a hand-full of the party leadership came to take a decision, and by
today the people have shown that the voice of the people is the voice of
God," Timi Frank stated
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