The Deputy
National Publicity Secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank,
has told the National Chairman of his party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, to
publish the original minutes of the meeting of the National Working Committee
(NWC) where it was agreed to throw away the reports of the Ondo State primary
election appeal panel.
The APC
spokesman also faulted statements credited to Oyegun against the party’s
national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, asking the chairman “why it took him two
weeks to prepare lies as responses.”
In a
statement issued yesterday in Abuja, Frank said the current crisis has gotten
to a stage where Oyegun must publish the undoctored minutes of the meeting if
he does not have any skeleton in his cupboard.
“Unknown to
the national chairman, the last two NWC meetings were properly recorded and the
record shows the contributions of every members of the NWC present at the
meetings.
“Oyegun
should tell the world why he brushed aside the suggestion of the National Youth
Leader, Hon. Dasuki Jalo, who suggested that the party should submit an interim
name to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) pending the time a
political solution will be found to the matter.
“But Oyegun
and few others who benefitted from the corruption that produced Rotimi
Akeredolu as the governorship candidate of our party did not see wisdom in what
Jalo said.
“Oyegun’s
few responses to the many of allegations raised by our leader, Tinubu, can
never hold water. For example, the chairman and his cohort contradicted
themselves when Oyegun said there was no voting at all but he forgot that the
party National Vice Chairman, Hilliard Eta, told journalists that there was
voting, which is in agreement with the position of the party’s South-west
National Vice Chairman, Chief Pius Akinyelure, who also said the NWC members
actually voted in the Ondo State Governorship Appeal Panel report.
“After that,
we mandated our national chairman and secretary to go out and do wider
consultations so that we can have a political solution to the heated
environment the situation has caused the party.”
According to
Frank, “Now, who is deceiving who? In another clime, Oyegun would have
voluntarily resigned as the national chairman of APC to allow someone else
correct the damage he has done to the ruling party.
“But it is
not too late. Our national leader, Tinubu, has said Oyegun should step aside,
and that is the opinion of larger percentage of the leaders and members of APC.
It is expected of our national chairman to do the needful before the evidence
of many evils done to the party are made public.”
According to
the APC chieftain, all lovers of APC should disregard Oyegun’s lies because the
true position of what transpired at the NWC meeting had been truly revealed by
the National Vice Chairman (South-west), Akinyelure.
“It is
surprising that Oyegun made mentioned of party constitution in the process of
removing the national chairman, but the same Oyegun has never obeyed the
party’s constitution to call for NEC meeting as expected and by allowing the
Deputy National Officers to act in absence of their bosses. My case is a
perfect example.”
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