The All Progressives Congress (APC) has knocked the leadership of African Democratic Congress (ADC) for owing its workers 12 months salaries
This was made known in a statement signed by the spokesperson APC Presidential Campaign Council Dr Dele Alake.
Claiming that a political party which cannot pay its staff salaries is not fit lead the country., he therefore urged Nigerians to reject ADC’s Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar during the January 2027 elections.
Alake said: “It has come to our attention that the National Working Committee of the African Democratic Congress, (ADC) led by Senator David Mark as Chairman and Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola as Secretary, has refused and neglected to pay party staff for over a year.
“We find it unconscionable that a political party that has made many grandiose promises to hoodwink Nigerians owes its workers for more than 12 months. Owing staff who come to work every day and who rely on the salaries for their daily sustenance is wicked and reprehensible.
“With this development, Nigerians can now see the emptiness and insincerity of those parading themselves as ‘new saviours’. ”
“We are sounding a warning to Nigerians and working people now: reject ADC. Reject Atiku Abubakar and reject all ADC candidates in the next general elections. They do not have the interest of our country and our people at heart. A party that aspires to govern Nigeria and which cannot be trusted with something as basic as the management of its own affairs and the welfare of its workforce should be rejected by Nigerians..”
The APC Council which chided the leadership of ADC for making empty promoses to Nigerians while they neglected the welfares of their workers said the party and its Presidential candidate don’t mean well for Nigerians.
“We have clearly stated that ADC leaders and their presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, do not mean well and can do nothing for our country. Their desperation for power is driven by personal aggrandisement and venomous ill will against President Bola Tinubu. A party that cannot pay its cleaners and workforce cannot be entrusted with our country’s affairs,” the ruling party claimed.
The APC Presidential Campaign Council affirmed that Atiku has a reputation for owing his employees insisted that his staff are left unpaid for many months when he travelled to his Dubai base.
“Atiku Abubakar, the ADC’s leader and Presidential candidate, has a reputation for owing his employees. While he regularly junkets to the UAE, staff at his Gotel Communication and other businesses also went months without pay and staged protests over unpaid salaries and other benefits,” Alake said.
Aon the part of the General Secretary of ADC , Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the APC Presidential Campaign Council recalled that he was found of owing staff salaries and pensioners when he was the governor of Osun State.
“The record of the ADC General Secretary, Rauf Aregbesola, on paying workers’ salaries and pensioners in Osun State, where he was a governor for 8 years, was abysmal. As governor, he mismanaged the state’s finances to the point that he could not pay workers. His government thus introduced quarter-salary and, at times, half-salary payments. As for pensioners, he abandoned them for more than four years. Many died because they could not afford the basics of life,” the council alleged
We are therefore not surprised that ADC, harbouring birds of the same feather, cannot pay its workers’ salaries.
