{"id":83898,"date":"2023-03-06T16:03:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T15:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/timi-frank-urges-inec-chairman-to-resign"},"modified":"2023-03-06T17:46:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T16:46:41","slug":"timi-frank-urges-inec-chairman-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/timi-frank-urges-inec-chairman-to-resign","title":{"rendered":"Timi Frank urges INEC chairman to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Timi Frank, has called on the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to as a matter of urgency resign his appointment.<\/p>\n<p>Frank, in a statement issued Monday, also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to do the needful by relieving him of his position if he fails to resign for conducting the worst-ever rigged election in the history of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>He said the call became imperative because Nigerians have lost total confidence in him.<\/p>\n<p>Frank noted: \u201cWe are supposed to be the light and example in Africa but with the dismal conduct of INEC and its officials during the last Presidential and National Assembly elections, other countries in the continent absolutely have nothing to learn from us because of what Yakubu and INEC have done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He, therefore, called on Buhari to be courageous enough to sack Yakubu for bringing shame and opprobrium to the country by declaring highly compromised and heavily doctored results as an outcome for the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections.<\/p>\n<p>Frank said that the election conducted by Yakubu has failed to meet international threshold of transparency and credibility and all friends of Nigeria must out of necessity denounce it.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted that despite the avalanche of facts of rigging and manipulation that characterised the Presidential and National Assembly elections available in huge volume of videos, audios and documentary evidence, Yakubu went ahead to declare the APC\u2019s Presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as winner.<\/p>\n<p>Frank added: \u201cNigerians have lost confidence in Yakubu. His words and his promises mean nothing. He has started again by promising free and fair governorship and State Assembly elections but Nigerians are no fools because they know he will do exact the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProf. Yakubu has shown himself to be a practical disgrace to Nigeria and has brought shame, disgrace and embarrassment to Nigerians in the global community. Today, Nigeria is now a laughing stock among members of the international community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Timi Frank, has called on the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to as a matter of urgency resign his appointment. Frank, in a statement issued Monday, also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":83896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,251,254,333],"class_list":["post-83898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-inec","tag-nigeria","tag-timi-frank"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Timi Frank urges INEC chairman to resign - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Timi Frank, has called on the Nation ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/timi-frank-urges-inec-chairman-to-resign\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Timi Frank urges INEC chairman to resign\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Timi Frank, has called on the Nation ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/timi-frank-urges-inec-chairman-to-resign\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-03-06T15:03:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-03-06T16:46:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678106042.82.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"979\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/timi-frank-urges-inec-chairman-to-resign#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/timi-frank-urges-inec-chairman-to-resign\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Timi Frank urges INEC chairman to resign\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-03-06T15:03:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-06T16:46:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/timi-frank-urges-inec-chairman-to-resign\"},\"wordCount\":356,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/timi-frank-urges-inec-chairman-to-resign#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678106042.82.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"INEC\",\"Nigeria\",\"Timi Frank\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/timi-frank-urges-inec-chairman-to-resign#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/timi-frank-urges-inec-chairman-to-resign\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/timi-frank-urges-inec-chairman-to-resign\",\"name\":\"Timi Frank urges INEC chairman to resign - 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