Abdullahi Adamu, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday said he met over N7.5 billion debt when he took over as chairman of the party.Informaion Guide Nigeria
Adamu, who spoke at a media parley accused the caretaker committee which held the party leadership before him of corruption. THE WILLS reports.
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Live, Study and Work in Canada. No Payment is Required! Hurry Now click here to Apply >> Immigrate to Canada“The fact of the matter is, go round the secretariat, there is no one person who has come here who is a member of my family – primary or secondary.
“When we came here, we came to reorganize and reposition the party. You don’t see the party in a state of mess and just because you want to be decent because you don’t want to offend anybody, you allow the rot that you inherited to go on.
“We came and met the party where people were fixing all manner of things, the legal bill alone was over N7.5 billion. We came to find that here, everybody was on his own.
“Everyone was just doing what they wanted to do, with no control, no system, no due process and just because you don’t want to be accused of anything, you just allow that kind of thing to go on,” he stated.
He pointed out that, “I am not that brand. My DNA has terrible allergies for that and I am sure most, if not all of my members in the NWC share in this.
“So, we found the necessity to reorganize the whole place and only God knows the extent of appreciation of the public that we got.
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“Of course, every situation of change has its victims and ours will not be an exception. We didn’t do anything with any bias or prejudice,” he defended the sacking of some directors and hiring of new ones.
According to the former Nasarawa State governor, what’s most important is the party.
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He said, “The main thing is the interest of the party, to reposition it in an election year. We will be abused, we will be falsely accused.
“Of course, we are humans, I am not saying we couldn’t have made one or two mistakes but the fact of the matter is that there is nothing we have done deliberately just to promote our own feathers.
“Recently, we tried to introduce table payment. We know we don’t have 200 people working here but if you go to the payroll, you have over 200 people.
“Who are they? How did they come on our payroll? What are they doing for us? What is the nature of their jobs? Where are their letters of appointment? What qualifications do they have?
“You don’t because you want to avoid negative press and then not do this. We did everything in good faith and I don’t have any qualms about it”, he added.Jamb Result
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