2023: APC’s ex-Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Timi Frank warns against rigging

The former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank said, no political party contesting elections in 2023 should contemplate rigging for any reason.

Timi’s reaction in a statement he issued and sent to CAPITAL POST on Thursday was at the backdrop of allegations by the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) on Wednesday that the ruling APC had perfected plans to rig the 2023 general election.

He said, the alleged plan by the ruling party to use Courts to stop the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machine in the 2023 general election was not only clandestine, but attempt to rig election, warning that it would not be acceptable to Nigerians.

The statement claimed that the plan was inclusive of the removal of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu in replacement of someone who would dance to the dictates of the party in power.

Timi claimed that as member of the All Progressives Congress previously, the party hardly won election in a free and fair contest, insisting that the CUPP’s allegation could be confirmed, if the recent antics of the party were anything to go by.

The ex-APC scribe wondered how the over 10 million cake names were imported into the voter register, while he urged other political parties, Civil Society Organizations and the media to be more vigilant as the election draw close .

Timi urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to further take steps to ensure that all fake names fraudulently imported into the Voter Register are deregistered.

He equally called on the National Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, not to bow to pressure from “dark forces” out to compromise the results of the forthcoming general elections.

He called on security agencies to commence investigation to unravel the extent of the fraud and bring the perpetrators to immediate justice.

Frank who is the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), Ambassador to East Africa and the Middle East, insisted that Nigerians need to be more vigilant than never before in ensuring that their votes count in the next election.

“Nigerians cannot afford another dummy and clueless administration in 2023. The votes of the people must count. The voter register must be thoroughly cleansed. The hatchet jobbers and their sponsors must be exposed and prosecuted by the relevant security agencies and institutions.

“All critical stakeholders key to conduct of credible elections like the INEC, security agencies, judiciary and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) must rise up to defend this country and its system of political power like we recently witnessed in Kenya.