APC may collapse by 2019 unless Buhari acts - Timi Frank

Comrade Timi Frank, the acting national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned that the party may not survive beyond 2019 unless President Muhammadu Buhari takes urgent action,

He gave this warning on Tuesday, October 25, in Abuja while appraising recent developments in the party, revealing that several realignments were presently going on in the country which could make the APC cease to exist totally by 2019.

According to Daily Post, the acting national publicity secretary said the only way to rescue the party would be for the president to intervene and support calls for the resignation of Chief John Odigie-Oyegun as the national chairman of the party.

Frank who claimed he was speaking the mind of most members and other stakeholders of the party, asserted that “at the appropriate time, more leaders of the party would speak out”.

He said: “I will also consult the governors (of our party) to make them understand the danger inherent in their silence in the face of the wave of crisis that has enveloped the party. This is like a rescue mission I am about to embark on. This struggle to rescue our party is not personal. It is because I love this party so much and I am a very loyal party man and I believe in this party.

“I am also going to pay a visit to our former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar; I will also visit Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and all the past national chairmen that made the merger to work. I am going to pay visit to my own former national chairman, Alhaji Kawu Baraje, of the then new PDP, Chief Bisi Akande of the then ACN, Chief Ogbonnaya Onu of the then ANPP, Chief Tony Momoh of defunct CPC and Gov Rochas Okorocha who led a section of the APGA to make the APC. This visit is one that I will start anytime soon.”

Frank had earlier said the party doesn’t have a competent leadership that can stand to support the president on the fight against corruption.

Speaking on the internal squabble within the party over the Ondo state primaries elections, he said: “I don’t think there was anybody that was outsmarted in the Ondo governorship primaries. I think the national chairman did not manage the Ondo crisis well.”

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