Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Timi Frank, says that the party’s National Chairman, John Odigie Oyegun should resign.

Frank, who is a member of the party’s National Working Committee, blamed the chairman and some members of the APC’s NWC for the crisis that resulted from the election of leaders of National Assembly.

He said that the leadership of the party tried to manipulate the process that led to the emergence of Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara as Senate President and Speaker, respectively.

According to a report by Sun Online, Frank stated that the chairman and leadership of the party ought to resign following the embarrassing mock election that never had the blessings of the entire party’s leadership.

He was quoted to have 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.”