2027: Timi Frank petitions US, demands Gbajabiamila’s resignation over ADC comment

Timi Frank, erstwhile lawman spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress, has called connected the United States authorities to analyse and authorisation the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, implicit alleged actions susceptible of undermining Nigeria’s democracy.

Frank’s request followed a viral video successful which Gbajabiamila was quoted arsenic telling Leke Abejide, representing Yagba Federal Constituency, Kogi State, “Don’t travel to APC. Stay successful ADC and scatter them. We similar what you’re doing… enactment successful ADC and triumph your election… bring Bala Gombe, and we’ll enactment him. Good luck successful court.”

Reacting, Frank described Gbajabiamila’s remark arsenic “reckless” and dangerous.

He said the remarks constituent to a deliberate effort to weaken absorption parties and erode antiauthoritarian institutions.

“Your statement, arsenic Chief of Staff, raises superior concerns astir the determination by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s authorities to truncate democracy,” helium said, adding that “an inference tin beryllium made that determination is an infringement connected the independency of the judiciary.”

He warned that immoderate proposition that courts could beryllium influenced “undermines nationalist assurance successful antiauthoritarian institutions,” citing references to governmental actors, including Leke Abejide, arsenic requiring clarification to debar “dangerous interpretations”.

Frank argued that Gbajabiamila’s comments efficaciously confirmed the presidency’s engagement successful crises...