Frank to APC: Don’t abandon Saraki

The deputy national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has said that it is dangerous that the party leadership has decided to sit on the fence and watch Senate President Bukola Saraki swim or sink at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).

Frank, in a statement, described the continued trial of the Senate President at the CCT as worrisome in view of what he called the manifest flaws in the processes leading to his arraignment.

He said: “I sincerely hold that the current trial of Saraki is not only undeserved, but amounts to paying a good man with evil. I also want to say that the leaders of our great party have unfortunately remained quiet in the face of evil.

“I don’t believe we have forgotten that the victory of the APC during the last general elections could not have been possible without courageous strategists like Saraki, who lent their political weight in favour of the APC at the risk of their own lives and personal survival. 

“I don’t think we have forgotten how Saraki as a senator in the 7th Senate brought the attention of Nigerians to the fraud perpetrated by the last administration in the name of fuel subsidy. 

“I don’t think we have forgotten so soon how Saraki led five other governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) into the APC - a development that successfully turned the political tide against the PDP and eventually tipped the electoral scale against them during the 2015 general elections.

 “I think the party needs to be courageous enough to speak out against this unwholesome trend, whose outcome will definitely not augur well for the overall development of our party and by extension, the country at this hour,” Frank said.