Timi Frank Accuses Tinubu Of Blackmailing And Placing 5 PDP Governors Below Duress To Defect To APC
A former Deputy Nationwide Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has alleged that President Bola Tinubu is blackmailing and intimidating 5 governors from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to defect to the ruling celebration.
All Information Newspaper studies that Frank made this recognized in a press release issued on Wednesday, April 23, 2025.
He mentioned Tinubu can be threatening to take care of governors who fail to help him by declaring a state of emergency of their states.
Timi Frank warned northern and southern leaders in opposition to being fooled by Tinubu’s methods to seize energy in 2027, stressing that the following election shouldn’t be in regards to the North or South, however fairly about who would deal with the myriad challenges confronting the nation.
He mentioned: “He has elevated the depth now by blackmailing, intimidating and placing at the least 5 PDP Governors from the South underneath duress to defect together with their Members within the Nationwide Meeting to the APC.
“To Tinubu, the 2027 election is about him versus the North and that’s the reason he’s making an attempt desperately to enlist the help of the South via manipulation and subterfuge. He has forgotten so quickly that the North helped him to get to energy in 2023.
“Nigerians are in want of a President who will assist Nigeria grow to be higher, not ‘Northern candidate or Southern candidate’ or ‘Northern President or Southern President’.
“The nation is overcharged already with divisions alongside ethnic traces. We subsequently can’t afford to have a President who’s setting one area in opposition to one other for the sake of his personal private ambition.
“For me, Timi Frank, as a Southerner, I don’t consider in tribalistic and a divisive president. I consider in a pacesetter that can come and unite fairly than divide Nigeria.
“I counsel each Northerner nonetheless supporting Tinubu to have a rethink. They need to know that the North that apparently ‘assisted’ Tinubu to realize energy in 2023 are struggling essentially the most in the present day.
“It’s a proven fact that the north has been grossly sidelined in appointments and different infrastructure growth programmes by Tinubu who has prioritised his private and tribal life pursuits over the every little thing else.
“This is the reason the North ought to get up. They need to know this route Tinubu goes when it comes to 2027 politics, will not be the perfect for Nigeria. They need to rise and communicate with one voice in 2027.
“I would like the Northern leaders to know that ought to Tinubu discover his manner again to energy in 2027, the North will endure untold neglect as Tinubu and the APC don’t have their real curiosity at coronary heart.
“As we communicate, at the least 5 opposition governors are set to defect to APC not as a result of they like Tinubu however as a consequence of intense political strain, intimidation and blackmail, whereas those that will stay have been made to signal undertakings to ship their states to Tinubu in any other case they are going to be made to lose their second phrases elections.”
