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Staff of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have threatened to down tools over the party’s inability to pay their salaries.
Thisday reports that some of the senior staff were already making efforts to mobilise junior staff for a protest against the party’s national leadership.
Some of the staff who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the party was facing a financial crisis like it did last year.
They said APC governors had stopped funding the party due to their displeasure on how the party is run by the Chief John Odigie-Oyegun led NWC.
A staff said they are owed 2016 13th month and February 2017 salaries.
“Our conditions are worsening everyday as staff of the ruling party. We are working in an environment that is not conducive for productivity. We hardly use municipal electricity or generator light in the party secretariat for six hours per day.
“If the chieftains of the party are not happy with the NWC members, they should say so and change them so that they can fund the party properly. There is no how anybody would think that the membership registration money can run a party, not to talk of APC effectively.
“If this debts and poor condition of service were not addressed soonest, we the staff would be forced to down tools.”
It would be recalled that APC National Chairman had recently decried the party’s lack of money as a result of poor funding by the governors and the federal government.
Odigie-Oyegun, according to a statement signed after a recent consultative meeting with governors by the APC National Publicity Secretary, Malam Bolaji Abdullahi said, “It was agreed that the Party is not effectively funded as it should be. A new funding mechanism was therefore devised based on a planned continuous membership registration exercise across the country. The meeting agreed that this is the only sustainable way to fund the party”.
When sought to know the response of governors to the NWC request at the last meeting with governors, the source said: “The governors left without making any commitment to bring money into the party for funding. They, the governors were of the opinion that the NWC members had not been prudent enough in managing the monies that had come into the party.”