Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives
Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank, has said that the position of the
National Working Committee (NWC) which nullified suspension of Muize
Banire by the party’s executive committee in Mushin Local government area
of Lagos state, has vindicated him.
Chief John Oyegun-led NWC had issued a statement nullifying the suspension
placed on the party’s National Legal Adviser on the ground that only the
National body has constitutional mandate to suspend a National officer.
Frank, in a statement he signed in Abuja on Sunday, said he refused to
honour invitation of a kangaroo committee engineered by the South-south
executive because they lack the mandate to invite him as a National
officer of APC.
The APC chieftain while describing the party’s National Chairman as a
‘master of confusion’ added that ‘Chief Oyegun-led NWC knew the position
of constitution as regards a National officer but decided to keep mum in
my own case because they were the sponsors of the kangaroo suspension
against me in the first place. But one will wonder why the NWC quickly
shown special interest in Muize Banire’s suspension if they were not out
to dance to the music of their pay master?
While restating his earlier position that he was never under any
suspension, Frank said “the APC National Chairman is a man without words
of his own but always out to serve the interest of higher bidders.
“Because I was telling them the truths against their wishes, Chief Oyegun
through the sycophantic zonal body arranged a kangaroo suspension against
me but I thank God today because the same NWC has come out to say that
nobody except the national body has power to suspend a national officer in
which I’m one.
“I therefore use this medium to tell those who think I’m under suspension
to erase such thought in their minds. I am not under any suspension.
“I must again call on leaders and governors of our party not to keep quiet
any longer in any decision taken by Oyegun-led NWC because the current NWC
under Chief Oyegun has lost competency, credibility and ready to be bought
over by the higher bidders.?