Nigeria: APC National Publicity Secretary, Timi Frank Congratulates Governor Dickson On His Victory In The Just Concluded Bayelsa Election

Timi Frank

The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Timi Frank, has expressed satisfaction with the result of the Bayelsa State governorship election which saw the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Governor Seriake Dickson emerging victorious and his party’s candidate losing out.

Speaking with newsmen at his residence in Abuja on Monday, Frank hailed the election, tagging it as free, fair and credible.


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He said, “This is to let Nigerians know that President Muhammadu Buhari is man of his words and that he is a credible leader. The credible conduct of the Bayelsa governorship election has shown that the President is a man of integrity and someone who keeps his promise.”

Congratulating Dickson over his victory at the Saturday’s poll, Frank called on the people of the state to remain peaceful.

He stated that the victory of the PDP in Bayelsa was not just for them alone but for all the people of the state.

He also used the occasion to criticise the APC National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun and the National Secretary, Mallam Mai-Mala Buni, of breaching the party’s constitution by taking over functions meant for his office.

Frank who ordinarily should be the spokesperson of the party since the appointment of former publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, as a federal minister, has been relegated to the background, an action he expressed dissatisfaction over.

As a result of Frank’s frequent positions against his party, the national chairman had said that Frank no longer speak for the APC.

Expressing his displeasure over the development, Frank said, “I have kept quiet for too long on this issue. I have approached my national chairman times without number and l have approached the elders of my party regarding this. I have even written an official letter regarding this, to allow me exercise my right as the acting National Publicity Secretary of the party.

“So, if the leadership of the party today knows that what they are doing is very, very wrong and if they think they want to continue to sit down and appoint a national publicity secretary, one day, even the chairman would sit down there and some people would appoint the national chairman for the party without following due process.

“It is very risky for anyone that is perpetrating this act within the party, that does not want to give me my right. It is my right. So, if as a party, we cannot acknowledge the office of deputies, we should scrap them.”

According to Frank, the party’s constitution clearly indicates that he should automatically be the spokesperson of the APC following Mohammed’s departure.

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“The National Chairman knows that it is wrong for him to be speaking, when he knows that he has a Deputy National Publicity Secretary just as the national secretary knows that it is wrong for him to be speaking when he knows that there is a Deputy National Publicity Secretary,“ he said.