₦airaland Forum

Apc will never accept that they are dead and gone in Sokoto but very soon they will not be able to deny it anymore......when the election results are out.

chiangwar:
SOKOTO people clean road and burn broom after President Mohammadu Buhari and his convoy pass the sultan palace Road opposite monarch house
# APC is dead in #Sokoto
#AllSokotoIsForPDP

No matter whatever he does, Nigerians have rejected him and he will be voted out come 2019.

I see PDP winning the 2019 race for power at the center. It's crystal clear now that APC has lost in Nigeria.

I just hope that this dictator we have as president, Buhari will heed your call.

They will definitely fail again. Any government that uses oppression as one of her working tools cannot go far.

SteveAde123:
PRESS RELEASE

TIMI Frank exposes fresh plot to arrest Saraki


Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progreasives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has raised an alarm over a fresh plot to arrest the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on the orders of the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris in connivance with the presidency.


Frank in a statement in Abuja said he has reliable information that the IGP has ordered operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) to raid Saraki’s residence any moment from this night and effect his arrest.


He described the plot as an act of desperation and utter wickedness by the IGP who is overly eager to redeem his image following the failure of the police to prevent Saraki from attending the sitting of the Senate on Tuesday where 15 APC lawmakers defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).


Frank said that the Presidency is equally anxious to get back at Saraki over the defections and therefore has mandated the IGP to ensure his arrest and detention simply to embarrass him.


“Recall that the police on Tuesday morning laid

siege on the residence of the President of the Senate and that of his deputy in a bid to arrest and prevent them from attending plenary. Saraki was able to escape and presided over the Senate.


“Following the development the presidency summoned the IGP and after berating him for failing to gag Saraki, gave him a fresh ultimatum to arrest Saraki using every power at his disposal.

“This act of desperation by the IGP, backed by the presidency against Saraki is condemnable as it has no place in democracy.


“I hereby call on all Nigerias and members of the international community to rise in unison to condemn this act of tyranny and barbarity being perpetrated against the President of the Senate by the present administration using the police.


“As you read this statement the SARS may already be storming the residence of the President of the Senate and I want to call on

Nigerians to hold the IGP and the presidency responsible should any harm befall him following the plot to invade his residence in the dead of the night,” Frank said.


He added that Saraki is a respectable and responsible leader who cannot hurt a fly, saying all efforts being made by this administration through the police to tie the Offa Robbery allegations on him will once again collapse like the CCT trial.


“They are only out to victimize Saraki for being the only responsible voice in this administration. They know that their allegations cannot withstand legal scrutiny, therefore they want to intimidate, embarrass, arrest and treat him like a common criminal.


“But I am rest assured that their present satanic plot against Saraki shall be frustrated by God who has been standing by him in the last three years,” he said.


He called on Nigerians to pray for Saraki as he faces this monumental trial once again.


Comrade Timi Frank

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the APC
Abuja.

timifrank40@gmail.com

07033555555

PRESS RELEASE



rAPC: Promises of oil well, automatic tickets won't stop our leaders -Frank

...Says 5 govs, 30 Senators, 135 reps members to go


The immediate past Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank, has said that the promises of oil well and automatic tickets to some leaders of rAPC by the presidency won't stop their planned defection in matter of days.


Frank, who is also a prominent member of rAPC expressed surprised that "the leadership of APC and the presidency could result to begging and making promises of juicy positions, automatic tickets, including oil well to some of our leaders."


He, however declared that about five govenors, 30 serving Senators and 135 House of Representatives members will all dump APC in a matter of days, assuring that there is no going back in their plan to stand by Nigerians who have asked them to leave.


In a statement the former APC spokesman signed in Abuja on Sunday, he said the move to retain the support of rAPC members and leaders by the presidency was coming too late, wondering what has changed if the party could not fulfil it promises in the last three years.


"In a matter of days Nigerians will have cause to celebrate our final exit from party of killings, poverty and propaganda to join hands with real progressive group in the country."


According to Frank, all the latest moves by President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of APC to persuade the leaders of rAPC are all efforts in futility.


"The same people that could not respect the agreement we had in the last three years are now begging, promising heaven and earth to our leaders. In deception, they have failed to realise that Nigerians now know their true colour. They are much talked about integrity is a delusion, they are wolfs in sheep's clothing.


"Our plan to reject them and their party is not for personal gain. It is primarily to team up with real progressive group to rescue the country from the current handlers who rejoice when Nigerians are killed in their number, who value lives of cows to Nigerians and religiously persecute opposition members in the name of fighting corruption.


"In 2019 general elections, Nigerians have come to know that a vote for the APC will mean a vote for hardship, oppression, insecurity and unemployment. We are teaming up to ensure an end to visionless leadership of the current APC government and because our leaders in rAPC are men and women of honour, there is no going back in our plan to join forces in rescue Nigeria from incompetent APC leadership."


While calling on the leaders of rAPC not to give in to presure, the Bayelsa born politician warned that supporting re-election bid of President Buhari is as good as giving consent to be arbitrarily jailed in nearest future.


Signed:

Comrade Timi Frank

Former APC Deputy Publicity Secretary

Abuja, 22/07/2018.

OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI 


                          STOP DEMONIZING THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY 



The ongoing conflict between the Executive and the National Assembly which followed your scathing criticism of the lawmakers before signing the 2018 budget, I must say, is most unfortunate and unbecoming of your status as president. To consistently seek to cast the leadership and members of the National Assembly as villains does not augur well for the continuous survival of our democracy. To pitch Nigerians against the National Assembly is to destroy the engine room of our democracy. This is most uncharitable and unfair. By reason of our constitutional democracy, no arm of government can be self-sufficient.


I say this because of the constitutionally guaranteed powers of the National Assembly to appropriate funds and judicial pronouncements affirming the powers of the legislature to make input into budget estimates submitted to it by the executive. Section 80(4) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), states and I quote, "No Money shall be withdrawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund or any other public fund of the Federation, except in the manner PRESCRIBED (emphasis mine) by the National Assembly." Besides, Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court, had in a case of Falana v the Federal Government ruled that the legislature does not exist as a rubber stamp of the executive. The Honourable Justice also upheld the powers of the legislature to make "INPUTS" (emphasis mine), into the budget where necessary. Justice Kolawole had said that: "The National Assembly was not created by drafters of the Constitution and imbued with powers to receive 'budget estimates' which the first defendant (executive) is constitutionally empowered to prepare and lay before it, as a RUBBER STAMP PARLIAMENT (emphasis mine). The whole essence of the budget estimates being required to be laid before Parliament is to enable it, being Assembly of the representatives of the people, to debate the budget proposals and to make its own well informed legislative inputs into it."


Following your claim that certain provisions in the 2018 budget might be difficult to implement, my question is, what was the level of implementation of the 2015, 2016 and 2017 capital appropriations to justify your assertion? With a record of about 20 per cent implementation of capital budget in the last three years, this administration has the unenviable record of very low budget execution. I think the executive should rather tell Nigerians where all the money for unexecuted projects in the last three years are being kept instead of beguiling gullible Nigerians with unwarranted affront against the National Assembly. As a member of the ruling party, I can say without fear of contradiction that the sole reason for this animosity and hatred towards the National Assembly is the fact that the current leadership of the National Assembly emerged by popular will as against imposition. Those who failed to impose leaders on the 8th National Assembly have continued to engage every avenue to undermine them and this has to stop. 


In addition, Mr. President, I dare say that the present National Assembly has been most supportive of your administration by overlooking your constitutional breaches in the spirit of forbearance and peaceful coexistence. For example, the withdrawal of $1billion from the Excess Crude Account for security purposes and the recent payment of $496million for 12 Fighter Jets, without recourse to the National Assembly, fall within the ambit of impeacheable offenses. But they decided not to go the way of impeachment in the spirit of collaboration and harmonious working relationship.


Let me further add that the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara and the lawmakers of the 8th National Assembly deserve praise for their resilience, focus and standing up for the rule of law and due process in the discharge of their mandate. They have far surpassed the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Senate in the number and quality of economic bills passed, confirmed nominees, oversight and advocacy. Don't get me wrong, they definitely have their faults, but by refusing to become rubber stamp, they are charting the right course for our democracy. They ought to be celebrated rather than setting them up for undue vilification. 


Sir, you may not like the manner in which Saraki and Dogara emerged as Presiding Officers of the Senate and House of Representatives respectively, but all you need is to work with the institution of the National Assembly to realize your electioneering promises rather than personalizing issues in the manner you have done. Because you did not like the emergency of Saraki and Dogara, your government has continued to harass and intimidate them and other members of the National Assembly in a bid to subjugate and turn them into Executive rubber stamp. This has to stop!


Sir, I believe it is time you stop complaining and engaging in blame games. It is time to stop demonizing the National Assembly. You were elected to fix the country but if you have nothing substantial to show for your stewardship in the last three years, no amount of buck passing will turn failure into success or lack of performance to achievements. Blaming the National Assembly for lack of direction and appreciable achievement in the last three years cannot be a passmark on any scorecard. Don't forget that you were not elected to tame the National Assembly. You were elected to lead the country on the path of progressive development through good governance, obedience to the rule of law and genuine collaboration with other  arms of government. 



With best regards.



Yours  sincerely, 




Comrade Timi  Frank

timifrank40@gmail.com 

07033555555

June 8, 2018

Press Statement

PDP Worries Over Alleged Plot to Arrest Obasanjo

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is alarmed by the revelation of former President Olusegun Obasanjo that the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government is plotting to arrest him on trumped up charges and detain him indefinitely.

PDP says the revelation coming from a Nigerian of Chief Obasanjo status is terrifying as it has heightened the tension in the polity and confirmed our fears that our dear nation has descended into a police state where any Nigerian, who holds a divergent view to President Muhammodu Buhari 2019 re-election bid, becomes endangered.

The alarm by Chief Obasanjo has further shown that the PDP has not been crying wolf regarding the plots by the APC Federal Government to frame, arrest, detain and arraign political opponents of the APC, including regular Nigerians, for holding or canvasing opinions that are divergent to the interest of those in power.

We invite Nigerians to note the travails faced by perceived opponents of Buhari Presidency including Senate President Bukola Saraki, Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, Senators Shehu Sani and Dino Melaye, who had raised similar alarms in the past.

The PDP urges Nigerians to note how APC controlled security forces, on Wednesday, arrested and detained opposition members in Ogun state, including a member of the House of Assembly, Hon Adebiyi Adeleye, who were going about their legitimate activities, only to tag them as cultists.

The PDP condemns APC’s resort to persecution, intimidation, harassment and framing of our members, as well as dissenting voices, just to suppress the opposition ahead of the 2019 election.

PDP wants the APC and Buhari Presidency to note that no amount of coercion, intimidation and illegal arrests will alter the determination of Nigerians to vote out the dysfunctional APC and rescue our nation from the shackles of the Buhari Presidency and its misrule, come 2019.

Signed:

Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary

OPEN LETTER TO THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS BY TIMI FRANK



Mr. Antonio Guterres 

Secretary General of the United Nations

Thru: The UN High Level Representative to Nigeria

U. N. Building, Plot 617/618, Diplomatic Drive

Central Business District

Abuja - FCT.



Dear sir, 


PERSECUTION OF SARAKI AND ITS IMPLICATION FOR DEMOCRACY


I write to update you on the increasing political intolerance, terror and persecution being unleashed against perceived opponents of the present administration in Nigeria-led by President Muhammadu Buhari and to seek your urgent intervention to prevent an imminent breakdown of law and order capable of truncating the nation's democracy. 


Recall that last week, I wrote a similar letter to the President of the United States, Donald Trump, on the need for the international community to save Nigeria from the current political terror against highly placed and innocent Nigerians as the country approaches the 2019 general elections which is about nine months away.


The political scenario is Nigeria and the highhandedness of the executive and its agents against law abiding Nigerians is becoming unbearable and unless something is done urgently to salvage the situation, our hard earned democracy will be plagued by disaster of unimaginable proportion. This call is premised on the old wise saying that a stitch in time, saves nine. 


Today, the entire country is in a dilemma. While terrorists, insurgents and other criminal elements are having a field day in many parts of the country, citizens are also being framed-up and hounded by security agencies on the direct orders of the executive in order to retain power. The police that is supposed to protect the people is being used as an instrument of intimidation and brutality against law abiding citizens. I don't think I need to recount the ongoing ordeal of Senator Dino Melaye because his humiliation and persecution by the agents of state is known even to the little children. I don't also consider it necessary to refer to the frame-up of Senator Shehu Sani as having links with murder suspects in Kaduna. The incessant arrest of opposition PDP members would take an entire page of this write-up were I to chronicle them. 


Only yesterday, the police, not tired of subterfuge came up with bizarre claims that robbery suspects arrested in connection with the Offa Bank robbery have implicated the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki. Recall that Saraki had two weeks ago raised an alarm about the directive from the Force Headquarters to transfer cultists and murder suspects arrested and being prosecuted in Ilorin, Kwara State, to Abuja, in a bid to tutor them to implicate him and the governor of the State, Abdulfatah Ahmed. Following the uproar, the police became silent for a while and have now decided to use the Offa robbery suspects to achieve their sinister goal against the President of the Senate.


I want you to note that the police on this occasion have not said anything new. What they wanted to achieve through the surreptitious transfer of arrested cultists and murder suspects from Ilorin to Abuja, they have now achieved through the Offa bank robbery suspects. Unfortunately, the President has not deemed it fit to call his stray agents to order in spite of the formal report on the issue made to him by a panel set up by the Senate following the alarm raised by Saraki on the impending fraudulent indictment about two weeks ago. 


I dare say that the President of the Senate is a man of integrity and high moral standing. Apart from his noble parentage, he has held several positions of trust in the private and public sectors of the economy. Some being his directorship of a bank, special assistant to former President Olusegun Obasanjo on budget matters, two time Governor of Kwara State, Senator and now President of the Senate. He is also a major player in the global arena as a former President of Globe Nigeria and other international engagements. Over the years, his character has remained untainted and his reputation solid. Even under the last administration where he played a pivotal opposition role, all efforts to implicate him failed as several investigations raised against him found him blameless.


Unfortunately, the present government has been out to bring him down by all means since the inception of this administration. He is currently facing trial on allegation of false asset declaration. He was accused along side his deputy of forging the Senate rules - a case that later collapsed following the inability of the government to concoct plausible evidence against them in court. The recent efforts by government to get him at all cost has led to blatant lies, harassment, intimidation and blackmail to damage his reputation and paint him black before the eyes of right thinking members of the public.  The goal of the government is to make political capital out his anticipated fall and reap bounteously from the sordid enterprise in the 2019 general elections.  


Permit me to say that Saraki remains a credible and responsible Nigerian and my call is not to say that he is above the law. If there is any genuine reason that would warrant him to account for any of his actions, I believe he will gladly do so as a law abiding citizen. However, using gestapo tactics to blackmail and try to hang a criminal charge on him would be tantamount to wickedness, repression and dictatorship. If they have anything against him, let them follow due process according to law. I believe that as a man who respects and believes in the rule of law, Saraki is at anytime ready to defend himself before a court of competent jurisdiction just like he has been faithful in doing same before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). There is a rising apprehension among the vast majority of Nigerians that if this atmosphere of  intimidation being unleashed against the opposition in the country is allowed to continue unchecked, our democracy might suffer an incalculable damage and irreparable crash. God forbid!


My joy is that you are well aware of these evil antics playing out in Nigeria and their implication for peace, unity, order, good governance and the rule of law in the most populous black nation in the world. What I am not sure of is your reaction to the incessant human rights abuses, harassment of opposition members and the covert forceful persecution of well placed Nigerians in order to get them to support the reelection bid of President Buhari, against their will. 


I therefore call on you and the leaders of the G-7 nations to intervene to prevent this looming catastrophe in Nigeria. I believe that prevention would be better than cure in this case because if highly placed Nigerians like the President of the Senate are being made to undergo these indignities, then there is no hope for democracy and rule of law which is about the preservation, welfare and protection of the common man. The country is dire political straits and we need your timely intervention to restore peace rule of law. 


Yours  sincerely, 


Comrade Timi  Frank 

Deputy National Publicity Secretary  

All Progressives Congress  

timifrank40@gmail.com 

07033555555

This is really a welcome development and if he eventually becomes the president of this country there will be a tremendous positive turn around. #RightManRightChoiceDankwambe2019

This is really and edifice to behold. A wonderful achievement that will benefit the state. Well done Dickson

Why protest topless? Nigerians should learn how to go on a descent protest to press home their demands. I doubt if genuine civil servants would agree to embark of this kind of protest.

PDP has done well in Ekiti and will certainly beat all other opponents

PDP is making a giant move and I love this because we need to rescue Nigerians from tyrants and liars. Take over is sure with this new spirit

I see PDP taking over come 2019. All must be on desk to rescue Nigeria from tyrants and liars. #PDPsouthwestmegarally