Atiku’s Spokesman Sues Ruling APC Over N125 Million Debt
Atiku’s Spokesman Sues Ruling APC Over N125 Million Debt
Daniel Bwala, the spokesman for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign council in the 2023 election, has sued the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu over an unpaid debt of N125 million.
Bwala said the debt was accumulated money accruing from legal services rendered to the party, which the party leadership has failed to pay.
In a suit numbered CV/2009/2023, filed at the High Court of the Federal Capital in Abuja, Crystal Chambers is seeking a court order compelling APC and its chairman, Adamu to pay him the N125 million, N25 million cost of the suit and 10 per cent interest on the judgement till the liquidation of the fees.
He said the sum of N120,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Twenty Million Naira Only) is the debt owed by the Defendants to the Claimant for the concluded cases.
The court papers say “the Claimant took steps to file all court processes, appeared in all the cases, both within and outside jurisdiction (Abuja, Osun State, Cross River State, Kaduna State, Benue State and Ondo State) and prosecuted the cases diligently to their logical conclusion.
“That the Claimant sent progress reports to the Defendants on every occasion any of the matters came up in court.”
According to the papers, the Claimant’s professional fee for the nine (9) concluded cases is the sum of N135,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Thirty-Five Million Naira).
“That the Defendants have so far paid the sum of N15, 000,000.00 (Fifteen Million Naira Only), leaving the sum of N120,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Twenty Million Naira Only) as outstanding,’ the papers say.
The papers show that the Claimant’s law firm wrote the Defendants, informing them of the conclusion of the nine (9) cases, and demanded payment of the sum of N120,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Twenty Million Naira Only) as full and final payment of their professional fees.
When contacted for further details, Bwala said he suspected that the refusal to pay him his fees might be because he left the party and not only joined the PDP but became a spokesman for its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and played a leading role in his campaign.
Speaking on the efforts he made, Bwala added that he made all diplomatic efforts to secure his payments but all fell on deaf ears with failed promises.
Bwala said if his fees are not paid, he will proceed to add the ‘President-elect’, Bola Tinubu as a defendant in the suit to compel the party to pay him his fees
