Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), refuted rumors that six suspended departmental directors at the party headquarters had been replaced by friends and allies.
According to Anaecdoonline.ng, Adamu had on April 22 ordered six directors, including Elder Anietie Offong, head of welfare, Bartholomew I. Ugwoke, head of research, Abubakar Suleiman, head of finance, Dr. Suleiman Abubakar, head of administration, Salisu Dambatta, head of publicity, and Dare Oketade, head of legal, who had been accused of mishandling N7.7 billion, to proceed on ‘compulsory annual leave’.
Later, he established an investigation group, led by former Jigawa State Governor Ali Saad Birnin Kudu, to examine the papers handed over by the disbanded Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee.
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The recommendations of the committee caused Adamu to suspend the departmental directors and the head of legal services indefinitely.
Speaking to journalists on Thursday at the party’s Abuja headquarters, Adamu refuted claims that he had replaced the directors with friends of his.
The APC chairman acknowledged that the ruling party was in a shambles when he took control, but claimed that the action was necessary to sanitize the system.
He said, “That the report is false. The fact of the matter is, go through the secretariat, there is not one person since we came in here that is my blood relation. Not one, whether primary or part of my extended family.
“It is a fallacy (that I have my people working here). In fact, when we came here, it was to reorganize and reconstitute the party. You don’t see the party in a state of mess and look the other way just because you want to be decent and not offend anybody.”
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Adamu claimed he saw a sludge of corruption, tardy authorities, and a registry with more than 200 names, including those of ghost employees.
The chairman of the APC vowed that it was against his genetic makeup to ignore such oddities, stating that his “DNA has horrible allergy for that.”
He said: “We came and found the party where people are fixing all manners of things. We had a bill of N7.7bn to settle on legal matter alone. We came to find that here everybody was like me, on his own. No control, no system, no due process. Everybody doing what he wanted to do. It is just because you don’t want to be accused of anything that you will allow that kind of people.
“My DNA has terrible allergy for that. I am sure most, if not all, my members in the NWC share in this. Of course, every situation of change has a victim of its own and ours is not an exception. And we didn’t do anything with bias or prejudice. The main thing is the interest of the party.’
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“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 are over 200 people. Who are they? How did they come up on their bill? What are they doing for us? Where are their letters of appointment? What condition of service do they have?
“You don’t, because you are afraid of negative media review, ignore this. People went to the market square saying we are arranging salaries but can’t pay. That is very far from the truth. We met and paid some arrears when we came in. I don’t have any qualms about this. We did everything in good faith.”
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