For his persistent attack on the national
chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the All Prgressive Congress APC,
has on Wednesday, set up a five-man disciplinary committee to investigate its
deputy national publicity secretary, Comrade Timi Frank.
Frank had recently insisted that the
national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, should resign, in solidarity with
earlier calls by national leader of the party, Senator Bola Tinubu and former
Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
Tribune rpoerts that the committee, said it
would probe Frank over a petition it allegedly received from a member of the
party in Akwa-Ibom State, Mr Aneka Akpabio.
The committee was set up by the national
vice chairman, South-South, Utufam Etah, and had Solomon Edoja as chairman, Ben
Davidson Opute as secretary, Dr Wilson Samuel, Dan Akpan and Tony Odey as
members.
Frank and the petitioner would be invited
by the committee.
Chairman of the committee, Edoja, promised
to make its proceedings open to the public.
“We are going to sit in the public. People
will be allowed to come and watch our proceedings,” he said, adding that the
committee has two weeks to report to regional office of the party.
Asked what the committee would do should
Frank fail to appear before it, Edoja said: “He is a honourable (member). He is
a national officer of the party and, we expect him by all standards, that he
will come, as a honourable man, a respected member of the party, he will want
to show the way.”
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