The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to close its national secretariat if it cannot pay the entitlements of its Staff.
The APC said a political party that does not pay its workers but allows them to wallow in penury should not be voted into power.
The APC in a statement on Sunday, by its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena said its “intervention” is in respect of some Nigerians who were working at the national secretariat of the PDP but recently got sacked by the party.
The PDP had sacked 50 percent of its staff recently as cash crunch hit hard on the party.
Some of the sacked staff have already dragged the PDP to the National Industrial Court in the suit no. NIC/ABJ/260/2020.
The APC said, “It will amount to wickedness and lack of empathy for the dying PDP to continue to deny it staff what legally belong to them, hence PDP should rather close shop, bearing in mind the popular saying that ‘the labourers deserve their wages.”
“It is more shocking that the PDP national secretariat (House of lies and propaganda) could also resort to threats against its own staff who had diligently worked for the party, get sacked illegally and also denied them what is due to them. Where is the empathy, PDP?
“We are reliably informed that for three years since the PDP lost power at the centre, staff of it’s National Secretariat have also not been paid their Housing Allowances, leading to over 50% of them entrapped in litigations with their various landlords, over 20% have their properties thrown out of their living apartments following which some of them resorted to sleeping in the Churches and or squatting with friends and relatives. Some have even sent their family members back to the villages.
“Although the above ugly experience is a culture in opposition PDP but it made worse since most of their leaders do not have easy access to public looting any longer.
“As a responsible governing party, we can only appeal to the leaders in the PDP to show compassion for once because these staffers are Nigerians irrespective of where they are working for now, their entitlements should be paid to the later, including those that have been illegally sacked.
“We also appeal to the Court of law to do justice to the case as the last hope of a common man,” the ruling party added.
Reacting in a telephone interview with our correspondent, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, simply said, “They (APC) are hallucinating.”
