By David Lawani, Abuja
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has denied that an undisclosed amount of money got missing at the party’s national secretariat.
Barr. Felix Morka, National Publicity Secretary of the party made this disclosure in a statement on Friday.
He stated that it was misleading for anyone to have claimed that such an amount was missing when “there was never a time forms were sold to aspirants at such denominated currency.”
According to him: “Our attention has been drawn to reports in sections of the media regarding lost US Dollars at the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress.
“On Wednesday, April 27, 2022, a sum of $50,000 was reported lost by an individual around the entrance gate of the National Secretariat of the Party.
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“To be clear, the lost money does not belong to the Party. The loss is neither connected with proceeds of the sale of forms nor with the relocation of the venue for the collection of Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms from the secretariat grounds to the International Conference Centre (ICC), as erroneously reported by the media”, he said.
He explained further that the reason for relocating the venue of the collection of EOI from the national secretariat was due to the need to decongest the large number of people that congregate at the venue.
“The Party’s decision to relocate the venue for collection of forms to the ICC was to ease heavy human and vehicular traffic around the Secretariat with teeming aspirants and their supporters who thronged the Secretariat to collect forms.
“As widely advertised and reported in major news outlets, all purchase of forms are payable to designated bank accounts of the Party. In any event, the fee for the said forms is set and denominated in Naira not US Dollars.
“We urge our party members and the general public to disregard any reports or suggestion to the contrary as false and grossly misleading”, he noted.
