2027: Do not fall for Tinubu’s methods, Timi Frank warns Northern, Southern leaders

A former Deputy Nationwide Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has warned northern and southern leaders in opposition to being fooled by President Bola Tinubu’s methods to seize energy in 2027.

Frank made the decision in a press release issued Wednesday.

He mentioned whereas Tinubu is on the one hand blackmailing southerners, particularly opposition governors on the platform of the PDP, Labour Social gathering and All Progressives Grand Alliance by enjoying the ethnic card to realize help, he’s then again threatening to cope with them in the event that they fail to help him by declaring a state of emergency of their states.

Frank added that 2027 shouldn’t be about North or South however who would repair the myriads of challenges confronting the nation.

He mentioned: “He has elevated the depth now by blackmailing, intimidating and placing no less than 5 PDP Governors from the South beneath 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 attempting desperately to enlist the help of the South by way of 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 turn out to be higher, not ‘Northern candidate or Southern candidate’ or ‘Northern President or Southern President’.

“The nation is overcharged already with divisions alongside ethnic strains. We due to this fact 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 imagine in tribalistic and a divisive president. I imagine 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 at the moment.

“It’s a incontrovertible fact that the north has been grossly sidelined in appointments and different infrastructure improvement programmes by Tinubu who has prioritised his private and tribal life pursuits over the the whole lot else.”

“Because of this the North ought to get up. They need to know this route Tinubu goes when it comes to 2027 politics, shouldn’t be the most effective for Nigeria. They need to rise and converse 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 converse, no less than 5 opposition governors are set to defect to APC not as a result of they like Tinubu however attributable to intense political stress, 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.