By Rayyanu Abubakar
All Progressives Congress, APC, National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has replaced the directors of various departments which were earlier suspended by him.
Adamu had, on April 22, ordered all departmental directors at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja to proceed on indefinite suspension over allegations of corruption.
Among the suspended directors were Elder Anietie Offong (Director, Welfare); Bartholomew I. Ugwoke (Research); Abubakar Suleiman (Finance); Dr Suleiman Abubakar (Administration); Salisu Na’inna Dambatta (Publicity); and Dare Oketade, Head, Legal.
The directors were said to have been sacked based on the recommendations of the committee.
Newsmen report that all efforts to get back to their offices, including writing a letter dated July 20, 2022, seeking the intervention of the National Executive Committee (NEC), proved abortive.
Sources from the party’s headquarters in Abuja, also told newsmen that yesterday the suspended directors also wrote another letter to the National Working Committee of the party and copied the Chairman, Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) and Kebbi State governor, Atiku Bagudu, demanding to return to their offices.
Martaba FM reports that the compulsory one-month leave given to them started on April 22 and ended on May 22, 2022, but they were not allowed to return to their offices.
However, two officials at the party’s headquarters told newsmen yesterday that the officials have since been replaced.
Sources said that there is bickering in the party as some officials and secretariat workers have said Adamu and the party’s national secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore, brought in new directors to replace the suspended ones without the knowledge of other key players.
Meanwhile, the APC National Publicity Secretary, Barrister Felix Morka, neither answered his call nor responded to an SMS sent to his phone for comment.
Similarly, the APC national secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore and national vice chairman (North West), Salihu Mohammed Lukman, who are members of the NWC, neither answered calls to their phones nor responded to SMS and WhatsApp messages sent to them.
Also contacted, Adamu’s media aide, Nata’Allah, simply said, that he did not belong to a member of the NWC.
