APC Crisis: National Vice Chairman Opens Alleged Financial Scams

By Kamil Opeyemi

The National Vice Chairman of North-West, Salihu Lukman has accused the national headquarters of the All Progressives Congress not giving a dime to President Bola Tinubu, governors and other candidates who contested the 2023 general election for their electioneering.
NPO Reports that national secretary of the party, Iyiola Omisore, had accused Lukman of being a black sheep within ruling party.
This was after the National Vice Chairman accused Omisore of campaign funds fraud.
“He (Tinubu) didn’t get a dime from the party. I challenge them. I’m making this public. Let them contradict me. Let them show evidence that that is not the case,” he said.
He alleged that unlike former President Muhammadu Buhari who was funded by the party for his campaigns, Tinubu funded his own campaigns himself.
He spoke at a press conference to explain his side of the story over the allegation levelled against him by the leadership of the party.
The APC vice chairman stated that the non-availability of funds to the president and all candidates of the party in the build-up to the 2023 general elections was unprecedented, adding that even the ‘disastrous’ Osun election was well funded.
Accusing both Omisore and the National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdulahi Adamu of spreading falsehood, Lukman said, “Look in 2015, the APC was truly a model party. In fact, a party to really copy. President Buhari doesn’t have money. There were people who were assigned the responsibility to raise money. It’s not like Asiwaju that people said have money. So there were people assigned with the responsibility of mobilising money for the party.
“If anything was done in 2023 based on that, it would have been the initiative of Asiwaju. I am not aware of it as a party. If you remember, in-between we were busy causing distractions about what should be our roles in the APC Presidential Campaign Council.
“Unless we are humble and honest to admit that these are things that ordinarily shouldn’t have happened and admit we need to correct them and reshape the relationship between us and the government that emerge, we would continue to have the problem we are having.”
The altercations among leaders of the ruling party is believed to have exposed the internal wrangling as the party’s National Executive Committee battles for peace.
A meeting of the NEC of the party earlier scheduled has been shifted to July 17.
There are calls for the removal of both Adamu and Omisore.