TO ABANDON SARAKI IS TO ABANDON A WORTHY "COMRADE" - APC

The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of
the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Timi
Frank, says the continued trial of Sen. Bukola
Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT)
is worrisome.

Frank said this in a statement signed by him
and released to newsmen in Abuja on Friday.
According to the statement, Saraki’s travails
at the CCT were undeserved.

The statement said: “I sincerely hold that the
current trial of Saraki is not only undeserved,
but amounts to paying a good man with evil.
“I also want to say that the leaders of our
great party have unfortunately remained quiet
in the face of evil.

“I don’t believe we have forgotten that the
victory of the APC during the last general
elections could not have been possible
without courageous strategists like Saraki
who lent their political weight in favour of the
APC at the risk of their own lives and
personal survival.

“I don’t think we have forgotten how Saraki
as a Senator in the 7th Senate brought the
attention of Nigerians to the fraud
perpetrated by the last administration in the
name of fuel subsidy.

“I recall how Saraki led five other governors
of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) into
the APC – a development that successfully
turned the political tide against the PDP and
eventually tipped the electoral scale against
them during the 2015 general elections.
“I don’t think we have forgotten how Saraki
led scores of Senators to cross over to the
APC on the floor of the Senate,” it said.

The statement alleged that the judiciary was
giving in to blackmail from a section of the
media by refusing to do their job as required
by law.
“Saraki has paid his dues at a time it was
suicidal for anybody to stand up to the then
ruling PDP.

“I believe it is time for all of us to act to
save our party.

“It is time to rally round our generals who
have fought valiantly and led us to victory.
To abandon Saraki is to abandon a worthy
comrade,”.