The
outspoken deputy national publicity secretary of the ruling All Progressives
Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has said the party’s national chairman, Chief John
Odigie-Oyegun, is no longer in control of the party.
Frank
made this known when he spoke on Channels Television’s Sunrise daily on
Wednesday.
According
to a report by DailyTimes, the youthful assistant party spokesman said that APC
currently lacked a competent leadership that could rally all members into a
unified front and proffer lasting solutions to the internal wrangling dogging
it, adding that the party’s national chairman is a mere front for certain
powerful members of the party, who he claimed were in control.
“As
far as I am concerned, he is not in control,” Frank said. “He’s being
controlled by some forces.”He continued: “But we cannot continue to have a
national chairman that is being controlled by people. We need a national
chairman that can pull us together. We need a national chairman that can unify
this party.” He said the disunity in the ruling party was affecting President
Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign against corruption.
“The party, as at today, is not
united; there is an internal crisis disturbing us,” Frank said. “I don’t think
as a party we are in a better state to truly support the President in the fight
against corruption.” Citing an example of how he has been precluded from acting
as the APC’s deputy national publicity secretary since the substantial
publicity secretary, Lai Mohammed, was appointed as Nigeria’s Information
Minister, Frank said Odigie-Oyegun informed him that a few people told him
(Oyegun) not to allow him (Frank) act in that role.
“I am meant to be acting publicity secretary of the party. Why is the
party depriving me of that,” he asked, before adding: “If you ask the party
chairman, he would tell you that certain persons in the party do not want you
to speak. Who are these certain persons?”
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