Timi Frank, a former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has demanded the removal of president Bola Tinubu as ECOWAS Chairman.
He called on the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to dismiss the Nigerian president as its chairman over a lack of legitimacy as President of Nigeria.
Frank, who made this call in a statement in Abuja, said the President lost legitimacy following the discovery that he forged the Chicago State University (CSU) certificate he filed with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to contest the 2023 Presidential election.
He said: “If ECOWAS must remain relevant and retain its credibility and respect among member states, especially in dealing with the military junta now spreading fast like a pandemic across the sub-Region, it must act fast to protect its integrity.”
He equally called on past and present presidents of member states of ECOWAS to prevail upon the sub-Regional body to do the right thing by appointing another chairman in an acting capacity pending ratification during the next Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS.
He said that failure to act promptly would put the Regional body in a lame-duck position where all decisions reached during the tenure of Tinubu would not be respected and therefore null and void.
He called on the leadership of the military junta in Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, and Niger Republic not to have any dealings, discussion, or negotiation with the Tinubu-led ECOWAS until the President is removed as its chairman.
Counsellor, Relationship and Marriage, Ruth Esumeh (left); chief host, Pastor Folake Daniels; motivational speaker, Ibukun Awosika; founder of Former Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, former Kebbi State Governor, Abubakar Badaru, Nigeria Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau, James Usanga, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Ibrahim Kana, President Bola Tinubu, Force Commander ECOWAS Stabilisation Force, Brigadier General Al-hassan Grema, National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Adamu Lamuwa when President Tinubu visited the Nigerian Troops in Bissau on arrival for 63rd Ordinary Session of ECOWAS.
He urged the authorities of ECOWAS not to be deceived by the appointment and secondment of broadcast journalist and Channels Television reporter, Mrs. Linda Nwabuwa Akhigbe, to serve as Communications Advisor to the ECOWAS Commission President, H.E. Dr. Omar Alieu Touray, in Abuja.
“This is a Greek gift; therefore, the Commission should beware,” he said.
He insisted that Tinubu’s administration, on the one hand, persecutes the media with the recent NBC’s last warning letter to ARISE Television, and on the other hand, it bribes them with generous appointments and paid advertisements as recently corroborated by Ex-Governor Nyesom Wike, who is the minister of FCT.
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