Akpabio’s defection: APC corruption fight dead, says Timi Frank

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has described the anticorruption fight of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration as dead in view of its new spirit of accommodation for those it once termed as “corrupt” and “looters” of the economy.
Frank in a statement in Abuja yesterday, stated that an administration that is rolling out humongous funds from the nation’s scare resources to procure the impeachment of political office holders who defected from the APC cannot claim to be fighting corruption.
He urged the international community not to take the President or any official in his administration serious when they say they are fighting corruption.
Frank said: “It is now clear that Buhari is not fighting corruption.
The President has killed the anticorruption crusade by converting it to a tool for his personal political survival.
If not, how do we explain the administration’s open arm reception for defectors from opposition political parties that it hitherto tagged “corrupt” into the APC? “They now wine and dine with opposition political party members – both in Nigeria and in Diaspora – those they have all along termed corrupt in order to reap political benefits from their states of influence during the 2019 elections.
“However, they want unsuspecting Nigerians and members of the international community to believe that the wide scale violation of the fundamental human rights of innocent Nigerians is a sign that the anti-corruption war is being prosecuted in the interest of the country.
“I want Nigerians to know that the fight against corruption is long dead in the country.
What we now have is political victimization, intimidation, harassment, coercion and bribing strong opposition political party members to support the re-election bid of Mr.
President,” he stated.