The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign
council has accused the African Democratic Congress (ADC) of owing its workers
over 12 months’ salaries.
Dele Alake, spokesperson of the APC campaign council, in a
statement on Monday, described the alleged non-payment of salaries as “wicked
and reprehensible”.
Alake said the development showed that the ADC and former
Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, its presidential candidate, could not be trusted
to govern the country.
“We find it unconscionable that a political party that has
made many grandiose promises to hoodwink Nigerians owes its workers for more
than 12 months,” he said.
“Owing staff who come to work every day and who rely on the
salaries for their daily sustenance is wicked and reprehensible.”
Alake said the allegation exposed what he described as the
“emptiness and insincerity” of those presenting themselves as “new saviours”
for the country.
He also accused Atiku of having a history of owing his
employees, alleging that staff at Gotel Communication and his other businesses
had gone months without pay and staged protests over unpaid salaries and other
benefits.
The APC campaign council spokesperson also criticised the
records of Rauf Aregbesola, ADC national secretary, on workers’ salaries and
pensions during his eight-year tenure as governor of Osun.
He alleged that Aregbesola’s administration introduced
quarter-salary and, at times, half-salary payments for workers, while
pensioners went unpaid for more than four years.
“We are therefore not surprised that ADC, harbouring birds
of the same feather, cannot pay its workers’ salaries,” Alake said.
He called on Nigerians to reject the ADC, Atiku and other
candidates of the party in the 2027 general election, alleging that they do not
have the interests of the country and its people at heart.
“A party that aspires to govern Nigeria and which cannot be
trusted with something as basic as the management of its own affairs and the
welfare of its workforce should be rejected by Nigerians,” Alake added.
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