The drama surrounding the suspension of the embattled deputy spokesperson of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, continued with him insisting that he still remains the party’s spokesman since there has not been any convention to appoint another person in his place.

According to CEOAFRICA’s source, Leadership, Comrade Frank further dismissed his purported suspension as recommended by the disciplinary committee setup by the party to look into the allegations of embarrassing utterances and anti-party activities levelled against him, saying that it was the “desperate move by the National chairman to get rid of him”.

Recall that Comrade Timi Frank was, on friday, suspended by the Zonal Executive Committee of the party (South-South Zone) even as the committee made further recommendations to the National Executive Committee (NEC) that he should be ultimately expelled from the party.

He insisted that the procedure followed towards his suspension was faulty.

Frank said, “Some days ago I was reading in the papers that I have been suspended by the party from the  office of the zonal secretariat. They said I have been suspended from the party and thereby they are recommending my expulsion from this party.”

“I want to make it very clear to you, and to the Nigerian people and my supporters that I still remain a loyal member of the APC and I want make it clear that I have not been suspended and I make it clear to you that I still remain in charge acting publicity secretary of the APC.

“It is very clear that there are desperate moves by my national chairman and his cohorts to get rid of me to enable them appoint an acting publicity secretary that will be a puppet that will be committed and loyal to them but not to the party.

While insisting that the crisis in the party can only be solved by President Muhammadu Buhari, he added “As it stands it’s only the President that can unite us again but as long as the President remains silent this crisis will not be resolved.

“The President should listen to the call of Bola Ahmed Tinubu that this chairman should resign and pave way for someone who can be National chairman to resolve and put us back in form.

“And if the President wants to appreciate the support of Oyegun, the president has so many ways to compensate him, I will appeal to the President if it’s possible, to appoint Oyegun as an ambassador being a former career civil servant, he will do better as an ambassador not as National chairman.”