A visibly distraught man stormed the national headquarters of the All Progressives Congress in Abuja on Thursday, accusing Nigeria’s ruling party of abandoning him after he made significant personal sacrifices to support its successful 2023 election campaigns.
The protester, dressed in an APC-branded blue shirt, marched back and forth at the secretariat’s entrance clutching a placard that read: “Reward me or kill me.” Security personnel and onlookers watched without intervening as the man raised his placard and shouted toward the building.
In a video that spread rapidly across Facebook and X, the man claimed he sold his home to cover debts he incurred while working for the party. “I sold my house because of the debt I seemed to owe APC — because of the work I worked for APC,” he said. When passersby questioned who had sent him, he pointed to his shirt and replied, “These are the people that sent me.”
His grievances ran deeper than lost property. He alleged that rather than receiving compensation for his campaign work, a party Chief Security Officer had threatened to shoot him. He also revealed that his financial situation had deteriorated so severely that he could no longer pay his children’s school fees and had left them in the CSO’s care out of desperation.
“Since yesterday, my children I don’t know where they are. I dropped them with the CSO and APC because I cannot take care of them anymore,” he said.
The full text of his placard captured the weight of his anguish: “All Progressives Congress. Reward me or kill me. I’m a party man and not a lunatic. I have lost so much for the party. I am depressed and my health is affected.”
No APC official appeared to address him during the roughly 30-second clip, and the party had not issued any statement on the incident at the time of publication.
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