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STRONG indications have emerged that a sharp crack exists among the National Working Committee, NWC of the All Progressives Congress, APC, following a call by the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party, Comrade Timi Frank on the party National Chairman, Chief John Odigie- Oyegun to resign from his position.

Frank noted that the APC failed because Chief Oyegun did not consult widely before embarking on the mock election which he said ridiculed the party, adding that the chairman’s action suggested that he acted under undue pressure to conduct the mock elections as admitted by him and was therefore of the opinion that if the ‎APC was to rid itself of the mistakes of the PDP, it needed a chairman that would insulate himself from undue pressure no matter where such pressure emanated from.

But in a swift reaction the National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said that Nigerians should ignore his deputy, Comrade Timi Frank who on Monday in Abuja called for the resignation of the party’s national chairman, Chief John Oyegun for gross incompetence.

It will be recalled that Frank also took a swipe at his immediate boss over comment credited to him(Mohammed) that president Moahmmadu Buhari is not the leader of the party.

But reacting to Frank, Mohammed who spoke to our correspondent on phone said that Nigerians should not take his deputy seriously.

“Just ignore him. I said it in the context that Buhari is the leader of the whole of Nigeria, not just of my party that’s why I said I don’t want to react to Timi Frank. I don’t even want to answer him at all”, Mohammed said

According to Timi Frank, it became imperative for the chairman and leadership of the party to resign having embarked on what he described as an embarrassing mock election that never had the blessings of the entire party’s leadership, adding that the leadership exhibited gross incompetence to manage the National Assembly issue until it blew out of hand.

Speaking in Abuja yesterday, Comrade Frank who deputises for Lai Muhammed alleged that what happened was because of the vested interest manifested by the chairman and few of his colleagues in the party, even as he blamed the chairman and some members of the APC’s NWC for the crisis that resulted from the election of leaders of national assembly, adding that it was unfortunate that the leadership of the party played what he termed hide and seek and over indulged themselves in the choice of Senate President and House Speaker.

It would be recalled that Senator Bukola Saraki and Hon. Yakubu Dogara had emerged President of the Senate and House Speaker, House of Representatives respectively, against the wishes and position of the APC. Senator Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila were favoured by the party after the initial holding of a mock election won by the duo, to occupy the seats.

Comrade Frank said, “If my party could not keep to the promise of change, then we must correct them to keep to that. I have no fear or favour than to say that the current leadership of the party has practically failed. With this incident alone, the chairman should resign from his position after taking a position against the people and the people’s position has finally come to stay. In the Western world, by today the party’s national chairman would have resigned honourably. Not just the national chairman but the entire leadership that took this decision of conducting mock election against the outcry of the larger members of the party. Against the bigger picture of Nigerians. A hand-full of‎ the party leadership came to take a decision, and by today the people have shown that the voice of the people is the voice of God.

“You ‎could see the way the party including the national chairman was speaking‎ before the NASS leadership elections; it showed clearly that the chairman had totally taken sides which wasn’t meant to be. I understand, he took some of those decisions based on pressure. In this century, APC as a
party, does not need a chairman that will be under pressure.

“‎ And the party’s national chairman caused it because times out of numbers some of leaders told him to come up with a zoning formula from the beginning. He was as‎ked to take a decision and let people follow that but he didn’t do that. They were playing hide and seek with the issue until the last minute when they saw the danger, and they wanted to play hanky-panky, which led us to lose one position at the Senate.”

On remarks attributed to the APC’s national publicity secretary that Buhari was a product of the party and not the party’s leader, Timi Frank who frowned at the statement, called on Lai Mohammed to desist from such comments as such were capable of putting the party in bad light, adding, ” Let’s go back and ask Lai Mohammed who the leader of the party is. If he does not recognise the President as the leader. In my own view, If Lai Mohammed that is my direct boss could come up to tell Nigerians that the President is only a product of the party and not the national leader of the party, then he should have been able to tell us who the leader of the party is.

“We have seen that even in then PDP, former President Goodluck Jonathan was the leader of the party. If in our own case the President cannot be the leader of the party, he should tell us who the leader is then,” Frank averred.

The Deputy National Publicity Secretary who described what happened at the national Assembly as good for democracy, said that Nigeria stood to be the overall beneficiary, adding, “Those that are calling for the deputy senate president to resign are anti-people, and I will campaign against it. I will continue to support Bukola Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu and every progressive Nigerian should support this mission as it will take Nigeria to the next phase because failure to do this will disrupt.

Source http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/crack-in-apc-nwc-as-deputy-national-publicity-secretary-calls-for-oyeguns-resignation/

Dollyak:
If you are going to immortalise him, I beg you put it in your SS region. Some regions has higher standards

Why are you so full of bitterness and bigotry.
Two right thinking men decided to immortalize an African hero and all that comes to your mind is SS.
Hatred odes no good, it destroys!

kingbus:
All these figures does not justify non payment of salaries, 30% reduction from federal can easily be covered by igr within each state . But aregbesola was lying just last week that oosun state allocation was slashed from 4.5billion to 560million that is almost 95%. Which means osun state is still collection enough allocation to pay up his civil servant. The question is where is the money still going ? How much loans did aregbesola take ,what did he use it for?

What you dont know is that Aregbesola has borrowed the future of Osun state for many years to come. Almost all Osun state monthly allocation are being used to pay Banks. The onechance change is here for Osun people.

I expect Buhari to list all the "hidden" accounts or remain silent forever.
Talk is cheap.

Some naive individuals are applauding this move, they forgot that the idea behind employing ethnic militia in the first place is because they are familiar with their respective terrain , hence are more effective than federal security agents.
It is the same reason civilian JTF were constituted, you can't move security men from Sokoto to Ibadan and expect them to perform.

Babaonechance interviews excerpts so far :

Subsidy ? I don't understand.
Appoint ministers ? I don't know.
NAS elections ? I don't understand.

Can someone tell me what this man understands.

The Daura President is a disaster to Nigeria as he doesn't understand anything about governance.

FastShipping:
El-Rufai has already positioned himself as the next presidential nominee of APC in 2019. Atiku can continue to dream. Nothing wrong with dreaming.

Atiku will never be president in Nigeria. Atiku has been running away from the United States since 2008. He has only been travelling to two countries - South Africa and UAE in the last seven years. He dare not visit USA.

When does visiting USA becomes a criteria for becoming Nigeria's president ?
Its high time we did away with this slavery mentality.
It is the Nigerian constitution and courts that determines who is a criminal in NIGERIA , not the US.

RIP to the dead.
Meanwhile , our amiable minister of tourism and foreign affairs a.k.a Babaonechance is on a worldwide vacation tour while Nigeria slip into chaos.

Bullshit!
Babaonechance always give one excuse or the other for his lack of plans and direction.
Nigerians are tired of excuses , action we want.

Rubbish!
Like husband like wife , no thought , no direction.
I would have expected she backed her allegations against GEJ with fact but she didn't because she has none.
In her own word GEJ was collecting 6,000,000 naira per visit!

Hmn mamaonechance , the honourable minister of lies and deceit , I hail thee.

Why does APC reason like a confused tout just because Saraki is now the senate president.
It is high time they accepted defeat.

Sweetnecta:
why is everyone seeing the same script? satan has made it so that they must see "the light at the end of the tunnel".

in reality, true death is certain, fainting is not near death and it is only illusion which is the handwork of satan that folks see as their near death. i dare say the Mercy of God is upon the person who God has allowed to not end up with satan by this phenomenon.

people should seek God in His Path for man after it.

have you found a muslim hallucinating with such nonsense? Allah has protected the true worshipers among mankind not to be a prey to that type of trick. it is similar trick that satan uses on muslim who are truly not believing when he comes in to them in dreams saying he is Jesus. the point is no one can see the true picture of Jesus because he was long gone before the first photographic equipment was developed.

how can a raggedy nordic pass for the master, Jesus [as] is unbelievable.

It is easy to dismiss anything that is against our believe as being " hallucinations " , "demons" or "devils" inspired.
The real question you should ask is : "how did you come about the knowledge of devils and demons existence" and "is there any chance your supposed reality is actually fake ?"

The truth is that we have been conditioned to believe , think and act in certain ways that we inevitably internalized to be "self".

How then do we free yourself from " self" ? , it is by observing oneself independent of "self" .

It might interest you to know that some animals do undergo some level of NDE.

exxell:
You think am not aware of that right? When some Yoruba ffools were always picking at the Igbo nation each time an Igbo man was caught doing drugs, where were you? Did they refer to them as Nigerians? Were they not tagged Igbo people instead of Nigerians? Abeg, leaver matter to Mathias!

While it is tempting to reply those rude posters you referred to , it only serves as an encouragement to the uncouth ones and it also perpetuates the evil act.
A little bit of silence sometimes works wonder.

There is nothing to be celebrated in this saga, in fact SA government should do everything to scuttle the politically motivated trial instigated by an opposition who thinks pandering to the west is the pinnacle of success.
Till date US is non signatory to ICC charter meaning no American official even if he/she destroys the whole world can be tried at the Hague.
Kudos to the AU for standing their ground.

dayo23:
my brother, it very shameful! GEJ administration was a total Failure

Robot alert!
I hope you can sleep at night because of GEJ.
What exactly did he collected from you ?

If you direct your extreme hatred for GEJ into a positive energy your life will be hugely improved.

I wonder why APC(Tinubu) is trying so hard to blame everyone but themselves for their dismal failure in NAS election.
It only shows how weak and disillusioned the supposed federal power handler are.
I expect more attacks on Saraki and Dogara from Tinubu's mouthpieces in the coming days.

IdisuleOurOwn:
U can keep on deluding ur self.

As I hv said earlier, I never went to school nor do I hv certificate, but I hv pass knowledge to people tru my practicals.

I believe in practical.
We hv many people wo hv certificate, yet they ar not better than those wo didn't hv.

I doubt if u ar science/science student, if u do then, u will undastad Watin am talking about. Go to laboratories be it biology, chemistry or physics, u will c people wo don't hv certificate inventing different things.


Ok, now since u ar clamoring about certificate, some of our army wo don't hv but ar in d war front battling wit Boko haram should b told to withdraw because they don't hv certificate.


The certificate of a ' thing ' is ceremonial.


Bill Gate never hv certificate wen he invent Micro soft word, same as Mark Zugaberg.

Ar u not using their products? Refuse to use it because they don't hv certificate.


U that hv 1, what hv u invented ?

Here is where you missed it , there is a difference between someone who claims he has a cert when he doesn't e.g Babaonechance and another who doesn't have and didn't lie about it. While the latter is okay the former is pure fraud and should be condemned.

Serves the church right .
The man is applying the "do unto others" doctrine.
He deserves an award for this innovation.

I don't know who is dumber between Garbage sheu and Babaonechance.
In esence , Sheu is saying that GEJ refused to give them handover note that would have contained the names of Buhari's ministers , how to tackle Boko haram and how to run a government ; if this is the case then why the hell was Babaonechance voted in the first place.
Nigerians wants quality leadership not a visionless senilitized government.

dayo23:
PDP woeful lies and deceit expose! Our Gentle admirable Presido and brilliant VP Carry on jareey, no lies and deceit fashion against them shall succeed. Next stop is Tinubu smiling along with Mr President, those yeebos and saTANOID be ready for more heartbreak I mean heavy one.

Keep living in denial , that you don't believe a fact doesn't make it wrong.

voxpopp:
There can never be anything good in PDP...nothing ever. They are still using their proxies that was enriched while in power to pull strings in high places

Are you okay ?

It is better to comprehend an article before commenting so you don't end up being tagged a confused ignoramus.

IdisuleOurOwn:
The homo-sapian call Sunnybobo if full of hatred, even you too is not excluded.

Am partisan. You and I knows that the certificate issue was politics.

Where were you when NTA says Buhari has certificate immediately he was declared winner?
Don't tell me they ar afraid of shake-up?


You talk about illegality and corruption. Do u live in this con3? If u do, where were u wen corruption strive to d highest order under the immediate past administration? Do I need to gave u example? No!


U ar not been sincere to ur self.

Talking about going to school. Me that type this never went to school.

Do u know that Alex Graham Bell, the inventor of Telephone did not hv certificate before he invent it?

Me that didn't hv certificate, am on a practical mission. Am extracting anacardic acid from cashew.


If u like keep hating Buhari, weather u like it or not, he will adore ur TV, u will hear about him on ur radio set, u will read about him on newspaper, on blogs and hear on Nairaland.

When did NTA become a certificate awarding institution ?
You and I know that governm sent agencies always dance to the tune of the ruling administration.
They said that just to save their head from the vindictive old man , the same thing goes for the army.
Till date nobody has seen the imaginary cert.

Babaonechance is the only man I know of whose evidence of having a school cert lies solely on newspaper headlines.

IdisuleOurOwn:
And you that have certificate, what have you used it for? rather than to come on faceless forum to rant.

There is a reason why it is called a certificate , only those who have it knows its worth.
You can continue to defend illegality and corruption all your life but Babaonechance dare not openly remove the cert requirements from our constitution.
It is good that you hope that will happen but if wishes were horses beggars will ride.

In case you don't know , education helps to build a nation and let your children be part of it . Don't keep them at home.

ionsman:
When your father manages to be chairman of landlords association of your area, let me know....

What is your point ?
Are you trying to celebrate fraud and corruption ?
What is good in a man without school cert becoming the president of the most populous black nation ?
You know what happens to ordinary Nigerians who engage in fraud.
This is the height of hypocrisy.

[quote autho=ALISMILE post=34733199]dat kinda loyalty at d expense of patriotism is exactly wat writes off their integrity and as such makes dem worthless![/quote]I still maintain my stance that secret division unit regardless of the country always show more loyalty to the president than even the country itself, if that makes them worthless then all secret service are worthless and should be disbanded.
There is a logic behind loyalty to the ruling administration , a scenario in which every self-acclaimed "patriotic" agent decides to act out what he/she deems as necessary without regard to the ruler can only breed chaos. Thus SSS like other secret service are always loyal to the sitting administration.

ALISMILE:
Today evry intelligent
Nigerian
knows that Intelligent Gathering is d bane of
our
security agencies! And d SSS is d only
security
agency in Nig that is primarily saddled wit
dis
reponsibilty! I cannot forget d fact that d SSS
failure in dis regard, which has immensely
mitigated against our nations effort in winnin
d
war on terror, must and shud be adequately
blamed on dem! All devloped countries
maintain
their sharp military edge over others
because of
their effective intelligence agencies, and as
such
their mantra is,'prevention is beter than
cure'.
Today d disgrace this nation is facing wit
regardto d Chibok Girls is due to d failure of
our
very ineffective intelligence agency in lacatin
dem! How come this gross failure and
chronic
ineffectiveness of d sss is nt put on d spot
light
of d media so tthat adequate blame can
follow
so that Nigerians can put dem to task? The
reason is because, just like our very corrupt
judiciary, d SSS regularly grease d palms of
our
very undignified media, who deliberately
remove
dem frm d spot light! I do nt ve d time to
highlight the degree of failure and
ineffectiveness of d sss! Wenever I see dem
by d
motorcade of politicians I feel pained about
how
badly we ve missed up tins! Let me remind u
dat
d failure and gross ineptitude of d sss led to
d
insurgency we re facin in dfirst place!It is shameful dat inspite of d state of d art tech
they enjoy fromd FG we still
do not know who d sponsors of BH aare, how BH get their supplies such
as
fuel,vehicles, arms and ammunitions and
financies etc jus to mention but a few! Y is
BH
yet to be infiltrated by ur so called deadly
SSS?

While you did make some points , you must realize that a failure in intelligence gathering and analysis doesn't mean the whole agency itself is unnecessary otherwise America would have disbanded CIA long ago because of 9/11.
It is a fact that intelligent agencies all over the world do record almost the same level of failure as success.
Your expectations of SSS are outrageous , you make it sound as if the SSS has a magical remote control they can press and everything will instantaneously fall in place.

It seems you forgot the crux of this matter , that Buhari is punishing SSS not because they are not doing their job but because of the role they supposedly played before election. He forgot that intelligence agencies are usually more loyal to a ruling regime than even the country itself.

This is a publicity stunt from Babaonechance .
Every informed person knows that the number of charges is inconsequential if none of them carries weight.
1 strong count charge is enough to nail a suspect.

These 50 empty charges will soon be dismissed as EFCC intended.

Why does Babaonechance thinks that it is more important to probe the military and prevent them from performing their duty ?
Is he paving a way for ISIL take over of the North.

I think Babaonechance was bullied into taking these destructive step at the G7 meeting and I wonder what they promised him in return.

dayo23:
senseless post, infact I don't know how you became a Barcelona fan, common sense u lack!

Empty barrel !
It is clear you had no counter points against him hence your vitriolic outbursts typical of thoughtless touts.

Burger01:
So, who was the cause of DSS problems? Jonathan is a failure and corruption personified. Deal or live with it.

Only people with blurred vision will see a problem with DSS , you might want to get conversant with the roles and duties of the DSS.
But if you are sure DSS has problems as Babaonechance also believes , kindly list them here or forever remain silent.

Burger01:
Jonathan is such a failure and very bad influence on every arms of government. What a wasted years under Jonathan's administration.

And you are a registered failure and an evil influence on whatever thing you come across.
Learn to stick with the topic and free yourself from mental slavery.
This is about the Daura President being overwhelmed by the "problems" of DSS and instead of him to solve his imaginary problems he decided to run to the army for help.