A Chieftain and the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Timi Frank, has condemned the comments credited to the National Chairman of his party, John Oyegun, where he was reported to have said the party was ready to concede the Senate President’s seat to the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Oyegun had insisted in an interview with an online media, that the ruling party and President Muhammadu Buhari cannot provide any political solution to the ongoing trial of the Senate President Bukola Saraki before the Code of Conduct Tribunal.
But Frank believes that it was inappropriate for the chairman of the ruling party to allow for the trial to commence and for the court to conclude on its findings before hurriedly confirming the position of the party or the President in justifying the current travails of the Senate President as his sole cross to bear.
In a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja, Frank, also said that the views expressed by Oyegun in the interview were solely his imagination and should be disregarded by all well meaning Nigerians and party members.
“That the chairman of the ruling Party will grant an interview on his personal opinion and asserting it to be the decision of the party, can at best be described as unfortunate and a carefully mapped out plan to rubbish the current trial of the Senate President.
“It is on record, that there hasn’t been any NEC, NWC , BOT or Caucus meeting of the party were such decision was taken to abandon the Senate President to his fate. This move undoubtedly proves once more, that the Chairman is acting on an already prepared script to incarcerate and make the Senate President pay for his disobedience for not adhering to the party’s decision in contesting for the seat of the Senate Presidency.
He further stated that “the chairman’s position on the current travails of the Senate President in the CCT, is a clear indication that the APC under Chief Oyegun has spoken the minds of all those, that were in doubt that the persecution of the Senate President is and may be politically motivated.
