The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has alleged a fresh plot by the National Chairman of the party, John Odigie-Oyegun to chase out the leader of the party Bola Ahmed Tinubu, himself and other leaders who oppose his leadership style.”
He warned the National Chairman of the party to stop running APC like a dictator.
Frank said the plan by the chairman to review party’s constitution “is a grand plot against the national leader of the party Bola Ahmed Tinubu, myself and other leaders who oppose his leadership style.”
The National Chairman had on Wednesday set up a constitution review committee headed by the party’s National Legal Adviser Muize Banire.
Banire was armed with a charge to closely look at the provisions for discipline of members that he, (Oyegun) describes as problem within the party “to be speedily neutralized.”
In a release issued in Abuja on Thursday, Comrade Timi Frank, said Chief Oyegun is vigorously working to ensure that he pushed out some prominent members of the party including “the National Leader, Bola Tinubu, myself and so many other leaders who have spoken against his leadership style which is now more of a dictator.”
Timi Frank said it is shameful for the National Chairman to talk of indiscipline “when he has breached the same constitution more than any other person, his leadership has breached party constitution several times, even as regards National Convention which the party law states clearly that it must be held every two years.
“Oyegun is talking about indiscipline when there are several allegations of bribery and favouritism yet unanswered hanging on his neck.”
The APC deputy spokesman challenged his national chairman to tell the world how he plans to fill some vacant positions in the NWC when “he is talking of non-elective national convention.”
He said if APC is a Democratic Party, members should be free to criticise the wrongdoing of the handlers.
“Some of us are prepared to meet them at the convention no matter the evil agenda they are planning against us,” Frank said.
He, however, called on other party members to look critically and reject the convention template as prepared by Oyegun led NWC.
He said “the template is designed to favour themselves and some few interest within the party ahead of 2019 general elections.”