Former Deputy National Publicity
Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Timi Frank, has
alleged that the National Chairman of the APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole,
collected over $50 million from different aspirants and candidates during the
primary elections of the party.
According to Frank, who is now a
member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, a large percentage of the money
was paid to the former Edo State Government through proxies from Imo, Zamfara,
Adamawa and Ogun states among others.
Report emerged recently that the
Department of State Services, DSS, invited and interrogated Oshiomhole, and
reportedly did ask him to resign over allegations of bribery and corruption
against him.
Oshiomhole, however, told
reporters that his meeting with the DSS was a mere routine conversation that
held in the interest of national security.
But in a statement he personally
signed and issued in Abuja on Thursday, the former APC spokesman
threatened to publish the names and amounts paid to lobby the National Chairman
to clear aspirants and substitute names of duly elected candidates with those
that failed.
According to Frank, the
Department of State Services (DSS) has presented its report and findings
against Oshiomhole to President Muhammadu Buhari but the President is still in
dilemma on what to do.
“I dare say that this singular
act of refusing to order the prosecution of Oshiomhole over sundry acts of
bribery and corruption he committed as contained in the DSS report, President
Buhari has shown that his APC-led administration is a stinking house of corruption.”
While expressing surprise at
Oshiomhole’s latest ordeal, he said the former Labour leader will go down in
history as a party chairman who had allegedly received such humongous bribe
within a short period of time in office.
Frank, however, called on the
President to act on the recommendations of the DSS by ordering Oshiomhole’s
sack and prosecution, if his (Buhari) government is actually fighting
corruption or opposition.
“We are in the know that
President Muhammadu Buhari has received the DSS report on Adams Oshiomhole and
Nigerians are patiently waiting for the action or inaction of his government
because this is an administration that has claimed fighting corruption as an
achievement.
“In the history of party
administration in Nigeria, no party chairman has been accused of collecting the
jaw-breaking amount of money allegedly collected within a short period in
office like Comrade Oshiomhole has allegedly done.
“Instead of Oshiomhole to clear
his name, he has taken to diversionary path asking the Senate President,
Senator Bukola Saraki to resign. Nigerians are not gullible. We shall wait to
see how the acclaimed anti-corruption regime will act on this particular issue.
“This same Oshiomhole has been
attacking the Senate President, calling on him to resign on moral ground. Can
Oshiomhole now step aside while the investigation into his financial
malfeasance is ongoing to justify his much talked about morality?”
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Some Nigerians can be so loud mouthed. Please release the amount and names of those that bribe the chairman or you better stop disturbing innocent Nigerian eking a living out of the quagmire you and your cohort have created.
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