Despite Making N3bn, APC Staff lament Delay In Salary Payment- Source

The ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) could be in a financial crisis, weeks to the opening of the campaign for the 2023 general election, despite making about N3 billion from sales of tickets to aspirants.

 

Newsonline reports that the members of Staff of the ruling party are lamenting the delay in the payment of their salaries despite the financial boom the party recorded in selling presidential tickets and other nomination forms to aspirants between N100 million to 40 million.

 

According to staff who spoke on the delay in salary payment, they said June salary was paid in the middle of July, while they only received their July salary last Friday as opposed to the payment on the 25th of every month.

 

A party source, who craved anonymity, told Daily Post that the leadership of the party, rather than pay the affected staff their allowances, slashed the yet-to-be-paid allowances by 40 percent.

 

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Recall that the screening committee for the APC presidential aspirants was led by a former National Chairman of the party, John Odigie Oyegun.

 

The source said: “The irony of it is that when the party engaged members on sensitive assignments like the screening and conduct of primaries and the assignment was carried out, using our money, one would not expect the party to honour us with non-payment of what is due to us.

 

“To worsen the matter, we learned that the yet-to-be-paid allowances have been slashed by 40 percent.”

 

Newsonline had reported that the ruling APC is having an internal management crisis which could have affected the party’s performance in the Osun election held on July 16.

 

The National Chairman of APC, Adamu Abdullahi, had told newsmen that they lost the Osun election because of internal party issues.

 

With weeks to the official campaign for the 2023 general election, will the ruling APC put its house in order?