APC’s Adamu accused of withdrawingADAMU
Abdulai Adamu, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) allegedly withdrew N3billion in party funds. This is according to five sacked former directors working at the party secretariat, in Abuja.
TheCornet reports that the sacked former officials are Elder Anietie Offong (Director, Welfare); Bartholomew I. Ugwoke (Research); Abubakar Suleiman (Finance); Dr Suleiman Abubakar (Administration); Salisu Na’inna Dambatta (Publicity); and Dare Oketade, Head, Legal.
“The withdrawal of N3,000,000,000 (three billion naira) in cash from some secret accounts that were reportedly opened without a resolution of the current NWC, or approval by the National Executive Committee (NEC), did not happen when the directors and head of legal were in office,” they said in their joint statement
The aggrieved officials said Adamu’s “breach of the cashless policy” was unwholesome”. They also denied Adamu’s claim that there were ghost workers and challenged him to publish “their names and total number”.
“There is no substance in the claim that there were arrears of staff salaries when the current leadership of the party assumed office. This is because staff salaries were paid up to the end of March 2022 to ensure that the new leadership of the party comes in on a clean slate regarding staff salaries.
“The staff can testify to this fact. It is therefore incorrect to say that the Abdullahi Adamu team inherited any salary arrears.” The affected ex-party staff said their sacking contravenes “the APC Staff Conditions of Service and the approved APC Constitution as amended” and, therefore, “we still regard ourselves as legitimate members of the APC staff.”
“The chairman, working alone or in conjunction with the members of the NWC, does not have the power to remove any employee of the party or recruit new staff without following the rules and procedures set out in the APC Constitution and the APC Staff Conditions of Service..” On the inherited N7.5 billion outstanding legal fee claimed by Adamu, the former APC staff challenged Adamu to publish “the list of the cases for which fees are outstanding and other relevant details.”
Defending himself, Adamu said the affected former officials “have an allergy to seeing money not spent, and they see me as the person behind it”.
“They have their masters somewhere. I don’t fight shadows. If I want to fight, I fight straight. Let those who are behind them come out openly.
“There was nothing I did as Abdullahi Adamu; whatever I did was an act of the NWC, fully composed, full attendance and decision accepted by all. It is NWC’s decision. I’m not going to go into details,” he said.
