By Adesina Soyooye
An angry Timi Frank has asked Senate President, Godswill Akpabio not to talk when people are talking about political betrayals.
Frank, a former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, told the Senate President that he should hide when such topics are being discussed because betrayal runs in him and is in his DNA.
Frank spoke in response to Akpabio’s criticism of Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara for an alleged betrayal of his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, now Minister for the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.
At a ceremony to mark Wike’s birthday Akpabio lashed the Governor for the bitter political disagreement between him and Wike and accused him of treachery and betrayal. But Frank reminded Akpabio of how he betrayed the PDP under which he was a two-term Governor of Akwa Ibom, and later, Senate’s Minority Leader. He later dumped the PDP for the APC. “You’re a pharisee who betrayed PDP and James Manager”, Frank lashed out.
He continued “You cannot give what you do not have.” i
He described Akpabio as “a Pharisee who sees the speck in another’s eyes whereas he has a log in his.”Frank described Wike and Akpabio as birds of the same feather who flock together.
Frank: “The man who spoke is a known betrayer, the man who he was defending is a betrayer. So a betrayer and treacherous character is most unqualified to tag a more decent and responsible man a betrayer.
“Akpabio has betrayal in his DNA, alongside Minister Wike. Both of them have castigated the APC in the past, only to turn around to wine, dine with and praise the same party. What should we call that? Is it not strange that Akpabio has suddenly become the mouthpiece of Wike, being birds of the same feather?
“Akpabio has proved overtime that he is a Pharisee who sees the speck in another’s eyes whereas he has a log in his. Who is the betrayer? A man who insists that the the resources of Rivers State should be used for the benefit of its people and not to serve a godfather or a man who approved four budgets for the President that are running concurrently in 2024?
“Who is a betrayer? A man who is fighting to liberate Rivers state from Wike’s strangle-hold of oppression or a man who turned the 10th Senate into a rubber stamp and an extension of the executive?
“When Akpabio was elected to the Senate in 2015 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), he usurped the position of minority leader from Senator James Manager who was then the most ranking Senator from the South-South against established Senate tradition despite being a rookie legislator.
“Akpabio betrayed the PDP when he defected to the APC even as minority leader in the 8th Senate. Besides, we don’t think Wike can complain of being betrayed because despite past antecedents, he is still very well in the game of betrayal by being a PDP minister in an APC administration.
“Wike betrayed PDP in cahoots with four other governors and the party lost massively in 2023. Since then he has remained incurable by ensuring that all efforts by leaders of the party to put their acts together are frustrated.
“Akpabio hates Governor Fubara because he is not used to standing for his people, when they need him the most.”
Frank urged Fubara not to be distracted by Senator Akpabio who he said is known for what he’s allegedly doing presently. He plays the politics of ’where belle face’.
Frank to Fubara: “Remain steadfast, Governor Fubara as God will grant you victory over your political opponents and traducers just like your recent victory at the Appeal Court restoring monthly allocations to Rivers State. The end will justify the means at the end of the day.
“We urge the public to disregard Akpabio’s baseless accusations against Governor Fubara and instead focus on the issues that matter most to the people of Rivers State.”
