Timi Frank seeks Yakubu’s arrest for his ‘act’ of ‘criminality’
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Former All Progressives Congress (APC) Deputy National Publicity Secretary Timi Frank has applauded Rotimi Amaechi for revealing that President-elect Bola Tinubu nominated Mahmood Yakubu as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Amaechi, former Transportation Minister, told reporters after casting his ballot in Ubima in Rivers on Saturday that Yakubu was nominated for re-appointment in 2020 by someone in the camp of Tinubu, a member of the APC.
“What advice? I have spoken to everybody concerned on this issue before the election,” said Amaechi, also a member of the APC
“I have spoken especially to those of us who opposed the reappointment of Mahmood as INEC Chairman.
“The person who nominated him for appointment is a member of Tinubu’s camp. So what are you expecting? Success?
“Mahmood worked under Wike as Executive Secretary of TETFUND when Wike was Minister of State for Education.
“So what you are having in Rivers State is that APC, SDP and others are contesting elections not against PDP but against INEC and against the police.”
Yakubu was TETFUND Executive Secretary from August 2007 to August 2012. Wike was Education Minister of State from July 2011 and acted as Education Minister from 2013 to 2015.
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Yakubu ‘did not have any good intention’
Frank, now United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), Ambassador to East Africa and Middle East, thanked Amaechi for his boldness and courage, as reported by Vanguard.
He said as a former top Minister under President Muhammadu Buhari and a chieftain of the APC, Amaechi is competent and credible enough to reveal those who facilitated the INEC’s job for Yakubu.
His words: “From day one, it is clear that the INEC Chairman did not have any good intention to give Nigerians a credible election but to just come and handover.
“He decided to deceive Nigerians and that is why he refused to follow the Commission’s own election guidelines because of the hatchet job he was prepared to do.
“The INEC chairman needs to be arrested for lying and his refusal to follow the template and guidelines put in place by the Commission, an act that is tantamount to criminality.
“The first and second elections were massively flawed by rigging and violence in most of the states.
“The last time we witnessed violence in Nigeria was during the 2011 general election. This election as corroborated by Amaechi, was not a contest between PDP and APC, but a contest between PDP and INEC and security agencies.
“That is why the INEC Chairman did not come out to conduct any election.
“Based on Amaechi’s confession, he only came to reward the people that put him there rather than conduct a free and fair election.
“We believe with this kind of evidence and proof that Amaechi has revealed, the INEC Chairman cannot remain in office. With all of this, he needs to resign and go.”
‘Most fraudulent election’ in Nigeria’s history
Frank insisted Yakubu practically conducted the worst and most fraudulent election in the history of Nigeria because of an obligation he owed those who saw to his appointment.
“We expected Buhari to have left a legacy of free, fair and credible elections which he promised Nigerians.
“He came and benefitted from democracy peacefully, but turned around to destroy it.
“With this, we call on the international community to help Nigeria because we don’t have confidence in the government of today under Buhari.”
Frank also urged the international community to urgently take strong measures against election riggers in Nigeria like Yakubu, security chiefs – police and others – who rigged the elections and fraudulently thwarted the will of the people.
“In all of these, with the amount of rigging, intimidation, violence and allocation of votes that characterised the elections, we believe the nation’s judiciary at the end of the day will be able to redeem our democracy by doing substantial justice to all petitions that would be brought before the courts.”
