{"id":71383,"date":"2020-01-19T06:49:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T05:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=71383"},"modified":"2020-01-19T06:49:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T05:49:31","slug":"timi-frank-accuses-wike-other-pdp-governors-of-lobbying-to-travel-with-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/timi-frank-accuses-wike-other-pdp-governors-of-lobbying-to-travel-with-buhari\/","title":{"rendered":"Timi Frank Accuses Wike, Other PDP governors of lobbying to travel with Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
A political activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of<\/div>\n
\n
the All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank, has said that
\ngovernors of the People Democratic Party (PDP) are the major problem of
\nopposition party in the country even as some of them were lobbying to
\ntravel with General Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n

Frank said aside governor Wike of Rivers state, so many of other
\nopposition party governors are daily lobbying to be in the good books of
\nGeneral Buhari, hence they don’t talk on national issues affecting
\nNigerians negatively.<\/p>\n

Reacting to a media report that the PDP was planning to stage a
\nnationwide protest against the Supreme Court ruling in Imo, Frank said
\nthe move is belated.<\/p>\n

“PDP’s planned protest is medicine after death, why didn’t they protest
\nwhen the former CJN Onnogen was forcefully removed from office? Why
\ndidn’t they protest when the last presidential election was rigged in
\nfavour of APC by INEC and the Army? Why didn’t they protest when Supreme
\nCourt unjustly threw out presidential election appeal? Today Nigerians
\nare seeing the result of the forceful removal of Onnogen from office;
\nit’s a bit late for PDP to protest.”<\/p>\n

The Bayelsa born activist specifically condemned in strong term the Abia
\nstate governor, who was seen on Friday travelling to London with General
\nBuhari at a time his colleague in Imo (Emeka) was removed as governor.<\/p>\n

In a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Saturday, Frank
\nsaid it is shameful that PDP has 16 governors and only one or two is
\ncommitted to the cause of the party.<\/p>\n

“Some PDP governors are the problem of Nigeria, some of them go to the
\nextent of lobbying the cabal to travel out with the President so as to
\nbe on his good books, they are selfish, corrupt, over ambitious and
\nshameless.<\/p>\n

“Some of them betrayed the PDP during the last presidential election,
\nand gave the APC 25% in their states in return for not being prosecuted
\nafter they leave office and to win their 2nd term.”<\/p>\n

According to Frank, a sitting PDP governor said: “If you say you dey
\nthere (APC), know I am already there. If you go to APC, I am an APC
\nmember. If you go to PDP, I am there”, what did the PDP as a party say
\nor do? The PDP as a party could not caution or penalize him and now they
\nwant to protest?<\/p>\n

“Apart from the governor of Rivers state Nyesom Wike and sometimes, the
\nBenue state governor Samuel Ortom, other PDP governors are PDP by the
\nday and APC by night; they fraternize with the APC thereby rendering PDP
\nincapacitated and unable to function properly and cannot play the role
\nof an effective opposition.<\/p>\n

“Nigerians are being taken for a ride by the APC administration and the
\nPDP can’t do anything to checkmate government because most of the PDP
\nmembers and especially some governors are compromised, otherwise they
\ncould have fought Buhari the same way the opposition governors fought
\nJonathan, whereas those governors refused to compromise during
\nJonathan’s tenure.<\/p>\n

“Nigerians should observe that apart from Governor Wike and Governor
\nOrtom, no other PDP governor dares to criticize Buhari and even make any
\nstatement about national issues. If there is any governor that Buhari
\nand the APC would have loved to remove, it is Governor Wike; this is
\nbecause he is not PDP by the day and APC by night, which is the reason
\nwhy he has the support of his people and despite all the persecution by
\nthe federal government, he still stands tall.”<\/p>\n

While urging other PDP governors to emulate Governor Wike so that
\nposterity will judge them well, Frank said: “It is better for these
\ngovernors to decamp to APC so Nigerians and the world can see them for
\nwho they truly are, after all once you decamp to APC; all your sins
\n(Looting and corruption) are forgiven.<\/p>\n

“To show you how incompetent some of the PDP governors are, the Abia
\nstate PDP governor Okezie Ikpeazu, flew to London with Buhari and some
\nAPC members in the presidential jet, barely 3 days after a PDP governor
\ncolleague of his from the same South-east was robbed through the Supreme
\nCourt and his seat given to APC. He was seen smiling and grinning from
\near to ear like a child that just tasted chocolate for the first time in
\nhis life.<\/p>\n

“Instead of telling APC the truth, Ikpeazu is fraternizing with them the
\nsame day the PDP was having its NEC meeting, He abandoned the meeting
\nand flew with Buhari to London, as that is more important to him than
\nattending PDP meeting, the party that gave him a platform to become
\ngovernor.<\/p>\n

“The wicked flee when no man pursueth, no amount of fraternizing with
\nBuhari and the APC can save any looting governor when the day of
\nreckoning comes.<\/p>\n

“Nigerians are helpless today at the hands of APC because some PDP
\ngovernors have compromised for their selfish interest but they should
\nremember that they are not God, only God knows how all these will pan
\nout tomorrow,” Timi Frank said.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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