APC Party leader Confirms Selling Out Several Trucks Of Tinubu’s Rice Received From NSA Ribadu’s Office
The Adamawa APC women leader revealed this in a petition to the NSA, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, calling for his urgent intervention in the crisis rocking the state chapter of the party.
The Adamawa State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has confirmed that the party sold out several trucks of rice and fertiliser received from President Bola Tinubu through the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) Nuhu Ribadu.
The Adamawa APC women leader revealed this in a petition to the NSA, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, calling for his urgent intervention in the crisis rocking the state chapter of the party.
In the letter signed by the women leader, Mrs Patricia Yakubu, State and copied to Senate President, Speaker House of Representatives, and other leadership of the party, she called on President Bola Tinubu and the party’s national chairman, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, to save the party from further decline after suffering defeats in two governorship elections.
In the petition obtained by SaharaReporters, she gave the details of how the state chairman sold the rice and fertilisers.
She said: “The party account has been completely abandoned; the financial secretary has been removed as a signatory against the party constitution. Treasurer has been totally sidelined in all financial dealings.
“All Financial transactions are done through an individual account (account details for investigation available). There was this time they collected three months at once totaling Seventy-Five Million naira (N75,000,000.00). Sometimes, these monies are paid through BDCs.
“That several trucks of rice and fertiliser were given from the office of the NSA and former minister of education respectively as palliative, but only shared 1 to 2 bags to Excos and sold the remaining thereby committed fraud.”
She insisted that she will be ready to produce the concrete evidence to back her claims at the appropriate time.
She further noted that recently, the Deputy National Chairman North-East Comrade Mustapha Salihu, assisted the entire state Executives with N100 million but only N40.5 million was declared at the Secretariat then the remaining remains a secret.
“All issues about these are kept secret by the Chairman, Secretary and Organizing Secretary, while some party executives and faithfuls are languishing in abject poverty, cannot afford to pay school fees, their children are home, some have died because they cannot afford hospital bills.
“In the history of the party in Adamawa State, thereby resulting the party in the state to be in disarray and in a crisis mood.
“Based on the above, Your Excellency, our leader, I humbly and sincerely plead with you to intervene in order to save the party from getting destroyed,” she said.
SaharaReporters earlier reported that the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) is in the middle of a major financial scandal after the All Progressives Congress (APC) State Working Committe confirmed recieving N325million from the Nigerian government agency to run the party’s day-to-day activities in Adamawa State.
SaharaReporters had learnt that the money from the education fund came to the APC state committee in payment of N25,000,000 monthly from October 2023 to October 2024 and is now a subject of controversy as some of the party leaders accused the others of embezzlement and management.
TETFUNF is a scheme established by the Nigerian government in 2011 to disburse, manage, and monitor education tax to government-owned tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
It is meant to be an “intervention agency set up to provide supplementary support to all levels of public tertiary institutions for the rehabilitation, restoration and consolidation of tertiary education in Nigeria.”
SaharaReporters on Thursday obtained a petition from the Adamawa State APC women leader, Mrs Patricia Yakubu, to the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, whom she refered to as “our leader in Adamawa State APC” where she confirmed that TETFUND sent monies to the party in the state but it was embezzled by some party leaders.
