Former National Publicity Secretary of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, Timi Frank, on Monday claimed that the “presidency
has been finally caught” in what he described as “Freudian slip”, following the
revelations by the Personal Assistant to the President on Social Media Lauretta
Onochie and the President’s campaign spokesman, Festus Keyamo, regarding their
principal and the former Chief Justice of the Federation, CJN, Walter Onnoghen.
Frank said that unconsciously,
the statement credited to Onochie that the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, had
a plan to annul the February 23, 2019, Presidential election and hand over a
default victory to the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku
Abubakar, “is an admission and a corroboration of what we have always known: That
the persecution of Justice Walter Onnoghen was politically motivated and was
not done in good faith, but was an attack on an innocent man by the Buhari
administration in its plan to thwart the will of the Nigerian people.”
While reacting to both Kayamo and
Onochie’s statements, Frank recalled that on Monday, April 15, 2019, that the
former had said, “The Atiku’s plan was for Justice Onnoghen to annul the
results of 17 major states won by President Buhari, thereby giving victory to
you guessed who, yes, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. But Justice Onnoghen confessed to
crimes against our nation.”
In a statement he forwarded, Frank further said that the above statement was, “prima facie evidence
that the Buhari government never planned to hold credible elections and that
they are using the state to sponsor an attack on the judiciary in order to cow
the learned justices into giving a judgment favourable to President Buhari.
“Nigerians may recall that the
petition used to suspend Justice Onnoghen was written by one Dennis Aghanya,
who is a former spokesman to President Buhari and is presently one of his
confidantes. Nigerians may further recall that the Code of Conduct Bureau
received the petition on Saturday, January 12, 2019, which is normally a day
that the judiciary does not function.
“It would further be recalled
that the Code of Conduct Bureau acted on the matter on Monday, January 14, 2019
and that never in the history of the Code of Conduct Bureau has a petition been
given such breathtaking accelerated speed to the extent that the Code of
Conduct Tribunal admitted that it had not finished investigating the case
before it charged Justice Onnoghen before the Code of Conduct Tribunal.”
While calling on the
international community to quickly intervene, Frank said: “Mr Dennis Aghanya’s
and Miss Onochie’s actions are enough evidence for the international community
to intervene on the side of the Nigerian people and the judiciary lest the
brinksmanship of the Buhari administration leads the nation to the precipice.
“Already, the desperation of this
government has seen them advance a ridiculous defence to the petition of Alhaji
Atiku Abubakar to the Election Petition Tribunal, to the effect that Atiku
Abubakar is not a Nigerian and that President Buhari does not need a West
African Examinations Certificate (school leaving certificate) to contest for
the Presidency. Yet, this same All Progressive Congress is challenging the
competency of Senator Ademola Adeleke of Osun State on the grounds that he has
no WAEC certificate.”
Timi Frank also urged Nigerians
and the international community to come to teh aid of the judiciary “before
they are completely emasculated by this dishonourable and desperate
administration.”
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