Oyegun & Buhari
In an open letter released on Sunday, Timi Frank, the deputy
national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has
called on President Muhammadu to ensure that the party national
chairman, John Odigie Oyegun, resigns.
According to The Cable News,
he also told Buhari that Oyegun lacked the capacity to resolve the
crisis rocking the party across the country, adding that so many members
and APC leaders are already contemplating leaving because “injustice had become the order of the day” under Oyegun.
Below is the letter in full:
"Mr President sir, it is with great enthusiasm and patriotism
that I’ve decided to write you once again through this open letter to
intimate you on the impending danger that could befall our great party
and I’m optimistic that this letter will serve its urgency and purpose
of reaching you and our leaders and elders of our great party.
Mr. President sir, I wish to reiterate my earlier stand on this
matter and I’m also elated that I’ve been vindicated in my struggle to
save our party all the while, when so many thought of me as a rebel or
paid apologist.
It is therefore no secret that I was one of the very first
persons in the party who took the bull by the horn and openly raised the
alarm of urgent issues which had to be addressed in other to steer the
APC ship in its right course.
Suffice to say that all my efforts to plead with the party
leadership to redirect its affairs fell on deaf ears as no one took me
seriously at the time.
You may recall Mr President, that the origin of this crisis
began when the issue of the national assembly leadership arose and the
decision of the party at the time against party members, especially
against the senate president and speaker of the house of representative.
I foresaw the impending cracks at the time when the party leaders
ignored the injustice against these two persons and I subsequently
raised viable concerns which still fell on deaf ears.
Again, when I raised concerns against the manner in which Chief
Oyegun handled the conduct of the Bayelsa state governorship primaries
that produced the APC candidate, no one listened to me, and alas the
outcome of that election became a clear testament to my alleged fears.
Subsequently, when my immediate boss, Alhaji Lai Mohammed
became the minister of information, I was supposed to immediately fill
in the gap and act in his stead as enshrined in our party constitution
as the acting national publicity secretary of the party, but this was
not to be as I was out rightly being persecuted for reasons unknown and
perhaps for selfish interest.
I was deprived from performing my duties and my duties assigned
to themselves. It is worthy to note that Today, we are witnessing the
same concerns and fears being expressed by one of the founding fathers
of our great party, who also doubles as a national leader agreeing with
my earlier call that Chief Oyegun should resign as the national
chairman.
This allegation of bribery raised by Asiwaju Tinubu as regards
the recent Ondo governorship primaries should be of concern to all well
meaning party leaders and elders and should not be swept under carpet or
taken of levity.
This weighty allegations should and must be properly
investigated because of course ‘there is no smoke without fire.’ Mr.
President sir, you recall the launch of the ‘Change Begins With Me
Campaign’ a fortnight ago, where we were admonished to lead by example,
and I dare say that this change must start from within the party so that
Nigerians can follow suit.
Mr. President sir, the episode of the recent Ondo primaries is
just one case too many befalling the APC under the leadership of Chief
Oyegun and I’m therefore challenging Chief Oyegun to tell Nigerians if
he has been able to mediate over any crisis that has been successful. As
far as I am aware, APC under Oyegun has not been able to resolve any
crisis in the party since we became the ruling party.
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