By Muhammed Abubakar, Reporting
NATIONAL Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, says the ruling party’s secretary stinks of corruption.
As a result, he said he would not tolerate corruption and lack of due process at the party national secretariat.
The APC national chairman made the allegation and declaration on Thursday while speaking with newsmen in Abuja.
Stonix News reports that certain directors were sacked from their desks on his assumption of office over alleged financial sleaze.
The former two-term Nasarawa State Ggovernor dismissed media reports that the affected directors were removed in order for him to replace them with his cronies.
He told newsmen that due process was observed in the breach in the management of the party fund and noted that he inherited a debt of N7.7 billion for legal services aside oustanding advertisment debts.
He further disclosed that those who were not comfortable with his insistence on due process and financial discipline were pushing the narrative that he was running a one-man show in his administration of the party affairs.
He maintained that he has no intention to employ his associates or relations to work at the party secretriate.
“The true picture is that it is false. That is the true picture. It is negative and positive and printed.
“The fact of the matter is going through the Secretariat, there is not one person who has come in since we came on board that is my blood person, not on As Abdullah Adamu,
“I don’t have a member of my family here. So it is a fallacy.
“The fact of the matter is that, when we came here, we came to reorganise and reposition the party.
“You don’t see the party in a mess and because you want to be decent because you don’t want to offend anybody you allow all that you inherited to go.
“We came and find a party where people are fixing all manner of things.
“We had a bill of about N7.7 billion to settle only on legal alone. Aside from the press adverts being owed.
“We came to find that, where everybody was like on his own. Everybody was doing what he wants to do, with no control, no system, no due process and just because you don’t want to be accused of anything you allowed that kind of thing to go.
“I am not in that brand. My DNA has terrible allergy for that and I am sure most of my members if not all members of NWC share in this.
“So we find the necessity to reorganise the entire place and only God knows, the extent of the appreciation of the public that we got.
“Of course, every situation of change had a victim and ours could not be an exception. We did not do anything with any bias or prejudices on our part.
“The main thing was the interest of the party. To reposition it. We are in an election year. We could be abused, we would be falsely accused.
“Maybe there are one or two mistakes, we are human. I don’t say we may not make mistakes, we can. But the fact of the matter is, there is nothing we have done deliberately just to feather our nest.
“I don’t do it. All that is just a lot of falsehood going around. Recently we tried to introduce table payment.
“If you are a member of this chapel, you know we don’t have 200 people working for us here, but if you go through the payroll, we have more than 200 people.
“Who are they? How do they come on our payroll? What are they doing for us? What is the description of their jobs? Where are their letters of appointment? What condition of service do they have?
“You don’t because you are afraid of negative press if it is because of this we arrange it.
“We met arrears, we have paid arrears since we came. I don’t have qualms about whatever anybody will say.
“Who has been suspended or who has been asked to come back? We did everything in good faith,” he noted.
While speaking on efforts to reconcile power blocs in the ruling party ahead of the general elections, he said the APC National Working Committee under his leadership has not abandoned troubleshooting efforts to ensure that aggrieved chieftains, particularly the presidential aspirants, queue behind the standard bearer, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
He said “As for reconciliation, it is a work in progress. We have been talking, we have been doing it.
“We have been doing it individually and these guys are in a political space that you (journalists) can always reach them and ask whatever your curiosity is.
“Talk to them and see what they can tell you.”
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