{"id":54812,"date":"2016-12-02T20:19:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T19:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=54812"},"modified":"2016-12-02T20:19:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T19:19:26","slug":"probe-n10million-bribery-allegation-oyegun-frank-tells-buhari-efcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/probe-n10million-bribery-allegation-oyegun-frank-tells-buhari-efcc\/","title":{"rendered":"Probe N10million bribery allegation against Oyegun, Frank tells Buhari, EFCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the party spoksman<br \/>\nComrade Timi Frank has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the<br \/>\nEconomic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and other anti graft<br \/>\nagencies to probe the allegation of N10m and Prado SUV allegedly given to<br \/>\nthe party national chairman Chief John Oyegun, for Bolaji Abdullahi&#8217;s<br \/>\nemergence as spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>An online media Sahara reporters had reported that Oyegun collected bribe<br \/>\nfrom Senate President Bukola Saraki to appoint his ally as APC<br \/>\nspokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Frank said until President Buhari do this, the fight against corruption<br \/>\nmight no longer be taken serious by Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_295261624\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Friday<\/span><\/span> in Abuja, also threatened to sue<br \/>\nthe new publicity secretary of the party, Bolaji Abdullahi for contempt he<br \/>\n&#8216;dare to issue any statement on behalf of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Frank also revealed that this is not the first time such allegation was<br \/>\nbeing level against the National Chairman. According to him, such<br \/>\nallegation was raised against him immediately after Ondo primary election.<\/p>\n<p>Abbullahi, a former Minister of Sports and Youths Development was<br \/>\nappointed the new spokesman of the ruling party <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_295261625\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Thursday<\/span><\/span> at a mini<br \/>\nconvention organised by the North Central Zone of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Frank, who was pronounced &#8216;suspended&#8217; by the South South zone of the party<br \/>\nover an alleged disparaging statement against\u00a0 the party and its National<br \/>\nChairman, John Oyegun has gone to court to challenge the purported<br \/>\nsuspension and the refusal of the party leadership to let him act as the<br \/>\nNational Publicity Secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with newsmen <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_295261626\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Friday<\/span><\/span> in Abuja, Frank described the zonal<br \/>\nconvention of the North Central zone as meeting of North Central as<br \/>\ncommittee of friends of APC saying non of the decisions taken there will<br \/>\nstand the test of time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Another act of impunity has been executed once more by my party and the<br \/>\nNational Chairman. Those people behind what took place yesterday know the<br \/>\ntruth, they know what they did yesterday will not stand the test of time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can assure you, Oyegun cannot retire me from politics. He&#8217;s my father,<br \/>\nhe&#8217;ll go before me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I described what they did yesterday as committee of friends of the North<br \/>\nCentral, Bolaji Abdulahi is not yet the publicity of APC, he&#8217;s a nominee<br \/>\ntill the National Convention ratify his position.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I respect Bolaji so much but we should not be desperate to occupy<br \/>\npolitical position.<\/p>\n<p>It is only the National Convention that can ratify his position as<br \/>\nsubstantive National Publicity Secretary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I &#8216;ll fight and resist my position because I&#8217;ll not allow anyone to<br \/>\nrubbish me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The manner of fund they used to call for the zonal convention yesterday.<br \/>\nNo meeting was held by any caucus of the party.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I read online that my Chairman compromised his conscience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to investigate the allegation that Oyegun collected 10 million<br \/>\nand Prado jeep to conduct the zonal convention held yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The President must direct security agencies to investigate this<br \/>\nallegation against the National Chairman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to appeal to the media not to take any statement yet from Bolaji<br \/>\nAbdullahi because his position has not been ratify by National Convention.<br \/>\nIf he does, i&#8217;ll charge him for contempt of court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the party spoksman Comrade Timi Frank has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and other&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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