The battle for supremacy between Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar has plunged  the All Progressives Congress, (APC) into deeper crisis with the call by one of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) member for the party’s national chairman, Chief John Odigie Oyegun to resign.

Deputy national publicity secretary of the party, Comrade Timi Frank who blamed the chairman and some members of the APC’s NWC for the crisis that has resulted from the election of leaders of national assembly said, it was unfortunate that the leadership of the party played hide and seek and over indulged themselves in the choice of Senate President and House Speaker.

Senator Bukola Saraki and Hon. Yakubu Dogara had emerged Senate President and House Speaker, respectively, against the wishes and position of the APC. Senator Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila had been favored by the party after the initial holding of a mock election won by the duo, to occupy the seats.

Speaking in Abuja yesterday, however, Comrade Frank who deputises for Lai Muhammed in the party stated that the chairman and leadership of the party ought to resign having embarked on an embarrassing mock election that never had the blessings of the entire party’s leadership, more so that the leadership exhibited gross incompetence to manage the NASS issue until it blew out of hand. This he said was because of the vested interest manifested by the chairman and few of his colleagues in the party.

“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,” Timi Frank stated.