Fresh Crises Hit APC Crisis As NWC Member Tells Adamu To Render Account of Party Funds

Fresh Crises Hit APC Crisis As NWC Member Tells Adamu To Render Account of Party Funds

  • Salihu Moh. Lukman has accused Abdullahi Adamu and Iyiola Omisore of running the National Working Committee NWC like their personal estates
  • He declared that the duo didn’t make any attempt to account for the whopping millions of naira the party raked since they assumed office year ago
  • He also insisted that with a Muslim-Muslim presidency, it has become urgent to ensure that the Senate Presidency is ceded to a Christian

A fresh crisis has broken in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) even as a member of the National Working Committee (NWC) Mallam Salihu Moh Lukman, demanded that the National chairman should render account of funds generated and spent in the last one year.

Lukman who is the national vice chairman (North West) of the party particularly accused the Adamu-led NWC of rendering the party organs prostrate since assuming office in 2022.

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Abdullahi Adamu urged to render financial account
Mallam Salihu Moh Lukman asks Abdullahi Adamu to give account of how he spent APC money. Photo credit: Abdullahi Adamu
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In a statement Lukman personally signed in Abuja and made available to Legit.ng, the APC chieftain cited the refusal by the Adamu-led NWC to convene National Executive Council (NEC), National Caucus meeting, give quarterly financial reports to NEC and inaugurate the Board of Trustees (BOT) now christened National Advisory Council (NAC) meeting as some of the alleged infractions he has committed within the last one year.

Lukman in a piece titled said:

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"Asiwaju Tinubu cannot afford to assume office with the baggage of being a leaders of an autocratic and retrogressive APC, which is insensitive to ethnic and religious tension in the country, largely compounded by our inability to regulate the conduct of our Senators-elect and House of Representatives members-elect. Everything must be done to return our party to its founding vision of engendering progressive politics in the country, which is about equitable distribution of power and resources in the country.

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"It is disappointing that one year since our election into the NWC, we have been running the party based on the old mindset of disregard for allowing organs of the party to guide decisions and appropriately allows for wider input by members and leaders of the party in decision making process. This must change urgently!"

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Meanwhile, Senator Ali Ndume of Borno South Senatorial District has revealed that some of his colleagues have begun to pay an outrageous sum to buy the Senate President position ahead of the 10th National Assembly.

The outspoken lawmaker made this allegation on Sunday, April 2.

According to the lawmaker, he boasted that he would have been Senate President in 2019 ahead of his colleague Senator Ahmad Lawan if he had had enough money to match the financial strength of the incumbent.

Source: Legit.ng

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