By News Desk
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu
All is not well in the national secretariat of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as approval of housing and vehicle allowances for members of the National Working Committee, NWC, is causing ripples amongst the staff.
The approval is coming on the heels of protest by workers who claimed they were still owed September salary.
However, the party’s national publicity secretary, Felix Morka, explained that the salary issue was being addressed, noting that the delay was as a result of an ‘internal mechanism.’
Before now, there was disquiet over the suspension of some directors at the national secretariat by the national chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, their replacement by alleged cronies and family members of Adamu.
An allegation he has since denied.
The affected directors were Anietie Offong (Welfare); Bartholomew Ugwoke (Research); Abubakar Suleiman (Finance); Dr Suleiman Abubakar (Administration); Salisu Dambatta (Publicity) and Dare Oketade, (Head of Legal).
Adamu disclosed that the move was to sanitise the system, noting that he met systemic corruption, people who were tardy in their jobs and a register containing over 200 names that included ghost workers, the APC chairman said it was impossible for him to overlook such anomalies.
The sacked directors, however, contended that their removal was premeditated.
A former Director of Administration of the party, Abubakar Suleiman, accused the Adamu-led NWC of failing to disclose their ‘sin’ before forcing them into ‘compulsory annual leave’.
He said, “Adamu lied. Nothing went wrong. The secretariat was in good hands. What necessitated his decision was not known to us or anybody. It was an agendum. Nobody was indicted. I am sure you must have heard the accounts of other directors too. Nothing went wrong anywhere.”
Asked about Adamu’s claim of N7.5bn, he dismissed it as non-existent.
He said, “As directors, we didn’t approve anything. Our job was to implement. If the party feels otherwise, let the EFCC or other anti-corruption body be invited to investigate the APC accounts, including the secret ones being operated by the party leadership.
