Former Deputy National Publicity
Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has made
a shocking revelation on the ongoing crisis rocking the national assembly.
Frank alleged that the President
Muhammdu Buhari-led presidency and the leadership of the APC offered lawmakers
N150m each to impeach Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the green
chamber, Yakubu Dogara and some governors, who recently dumped the ruling
party.
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Frank, in a statement on Saturday, also listed governors Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of
Sokoto, Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara and Samuel Ortom of Benue as having been
marked for removal in the said plot.
He said while Saraki and the
governors have been slated for removal for daring to defect from the APC to the
opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dogara is to be impeached for fear
he may soon dump the APC as well.
He described the ongoing plot to
illegally dispense state funds to carry out the unconstitutional removal of
duly elected public officials as the height of impunity and corruption that has
been prevalent in the present administration since inception in May 2015.
Frank said: “From available
information, the Presidency in collaboration with the leadership of the APC is
about to dole out the sum of $400,000 (about N150million) each to APC Senators
and House of Representatives members to impeach Saraki who has defected to the
PDP and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara –
who they fear may soon dump the party as well.
“They are also offering
legislators in some State Houses of Assembly the sum of $150,000 (about
N50million) each, to impeach their Governors that recently defected to the
PDP.”
He said that the President has
allegedly directed the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to foot the
bills to achieve the objective of removing the defectors from their present
political positions.
“I have been reliably informed
that after separate meetings with APC Senators and House of Representatives
members, shortly before his U.K. trip, the President summoned the Group
Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)
and after informing him that ‘APC lawmakers have a proposal’, he ‘directed the
GMD to attend to their needs.’
“I want Nigerians and members of
the international community to note that this ‘presidential order’ is coming at
a period when State Governors have incessantly complained, during their monthly
Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) meetings in Abuja, about
unexplained shortfalls in remittances of crude oil sales to the Federation
Account by the NNPC.
“From this curious directive, it
is now clear to Nigerians and the world at large, that the amount accruing to
the Federation Account from monthly crude oil sales is being deliberately and
illegally deducted at source and set aside by the NNPC – on the orders of the
presidency – to fund illegal operations like their present desperate bid to
remove Saraki, Dogara and Governors that recently dumped the APC.
“I am not surprised about this
unholy cash inducements to lawmakers to do a dirty job because the Presidency
and the APC recently conducted a dressed rehearsal of an inducement heist in
Ekiti State during the ‘see and buy votes saga’ with which they allegedly
rigged the Ekiti Governorship election in favour of the APC,” he said.
He however warned the presidency
and the APC to desist from their present plot to illegally remove Saraki,
Dogara and affected Governors, it may lead to chaos and anarchy capable of
truncating democracy in the country.
He said: “Let me warn the
Presidency and the leadership of the APC to desist from their present desperate
plot to bribe some Federal and State legislators so as to force the illegal
removal of Saraki, Dogara and Governors that recently dumped the APC.
“Let me also urge APC lawmakers
to be circumspect about this unholy transaction as they will be risking the
wrath of Nigerians should they yield to the inducements and attempt the
illegality for which they are now being primed with loads of cash.
“Is it not curious that this
illegal cash bazaar is being clandestinely orchestrated by a government that
has visited untold hardship on Nigerians in the last three years?” he queried.
He pleaded with the international
community to call the President and the leadership of the APC to order and also
to prevail on them to stop their plan to illegally use state funds to truncate
the nation’s democracy.
“I also want Nigerians and
members of the international community to jointly hold the presidency and the
leadership of the APC responsible for any unintended consequences of their
present action aimed at removing the leadership of the National Assembly and
governors who recently switched allegiances from the APC to the opposition
PDP,” Frank said.
He further urged the APC
lawmakers to reject such “blood money” aimed at violating their consciences and
lowering their integrity, while calling on Nigerians to be extra vigilant in
order to frustrate the current efforts of the Presidency and the APC to
instigate chaos and anarchy in the National Assembly and some State Houses of
Assembly, capable of truncating democracy in Nigeria.
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