{"id":59059,"date":"2017-08-06T17:06:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T16:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=59059"},"modified":"2017-08-06T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T16:23:00","slug":"frank-laud-atiku-saraki-comments-dying-apc-oyegun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/frank-laud-atiku-saraki-comments-dying-apc-oyegun\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Laud Atiku, Saraki over comments on &#8220;dying&#8221; APC under Oyegun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Condemns suspension of Bayelsa APC chairman<\/p>\n<p>Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives<br \/>\nCongress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank, said he has been vindicated by the<br \/>\nrecent comments credited to the former Vice President Alhaji Atiku<br \/>\nAbubakar and Senate President Bukola Saraki, over the ongoing<br \/>\nmismanagement of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Frank, who commended the two national leaders for summoning the courage to<br \/>\nspeak out against what he described as &#8220;undemocratic tendencies of the<br \/>\ncurrent National Working Committee led by Chief John Oyegun&#8221;, declared<br \/>\nthat APC &#8220;is dead but not yet burry under the current National Chairman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement signed\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_204163783\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Sunday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0in Abuja, Timi Frank said the real lovers<br \/>\nof APC are the ones speaking out their minds having waited for two years<br \/>\nwithout any improvement on the part of the working committee &#8220;that is<br \/>\npractically leading the party to destruction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Recall that both Atiku and Saraki came down hard penultimate week on the<br \/>\nrunning of APC by the current NWC under Chief Oyegun.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, Atiku who decried the party&#8217;s inability to hold meetings of<br \/>\ntheir organs including those meant for the democratic selection of their<br \/>\nleadership, or even constitute institutions prescribed in their<br \/>\nConstitution, called it &#8216;party bullying.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>According to Atiku, &#8220;In the absence of those meetings and elections, their<br \/>\nexisting leadership, often under the direction of the Executive at the<br \/>\nstate or federal level, fill the void. That\u2019s not party building but party<br \/>\nbullying. And it\u2019s certainly not a way to democratize parties and<br \/>\naggregate their members\u2019 opinions, interests and aspirations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the Senate President Bukola Saraki, who spoke at the News Agency of<br \/>\nNigeria (NAN) Forum\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_204163784\"><span class=\"aQJ\">two days later<\/span><\/span>\u00a0said the APC leadership headed by its<br \/>\nNational Chairman, Chief John Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, lacked focus.<\/p>\n<p>Frank said: &#8220;I&#8217;m happy that some of our leaders are now speaking out<br \/>\nagainst the lack of internal democracy I have been fighting for all this<br \/>\nwhile. It is still not too late if others will shun sentiments and see<br \/>\nreasons to quickly rescue APC from the current handlers, who are merchants<br \/>\nand without minds of their own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Frank has strongly condemned the suspension of APC Chairman in<br \/>\nBayelsa state by the NWC, saying the party leadership has committed<br \/>\nunforgivable error against the constitution of the party.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there are allegations against state party chairman, it is expected of<br \/>\nNWC to set up a panel of enquiry to investigate these allegations and give<br \/>\nthe chairman in question a fair hearing and not suspension like in this<br \/>\ncase.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like I have been saying, Nigerians will now see the excesses of Chief<br \/>\nOyegun led NWC and how the suppose leaders are creating unnecessary crisis<br \/>\nby taking sides practically in all state chapters of the federation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The APC chieftain believe that it is not the best time for the party to<br \/>\nsuspend anybody but time to embark on genuie reconciliation, adding that<br \/>\n&#8220;all what Chief Oyegun led NWC has been doing were displaying of impunity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One will be forced to ask if Chief Oyegun has two party constitutions<br \/>\nwhere he uses one for his own favour and the other against his perceived<br \/>\nenemies?<\/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>&#8230;Condemns suspension of Bayelsa APC chairman Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank, said he has been vindicated by the recent comments credited&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":59065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Frank Laud Atiku, Saraki over comments on &quot;dying&quot; 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