PDP broke, says no money to complete N11.5bn secretariat

Following the fallout of the last general elections, the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has affirmed that it no longer has money to complete its multi-billion naira new national secretariat.

The new secretariat is situated at the Central Business District, Abuja.

It was gathered that the project was billed to cost N11.5bn when it was awarded some years ago.

However, recent checks at the building site lately show that there was no visibly work going on there. Grasses have overtaken the site, just as contractors have abandoned the job half-way.

The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, told Punch that the claims in some quarters that members of the National Working Committee of the party got a huge sum of money from the fund realised for its Presidential campaign early in the year were untrue.

He said, “During our sale of forms, we had planned to use substantial part of the money to complete the secretariat.

“We also had a fund-raising dinner where money was raised and we were told that about N21bn was raised and that some of it would be given to us for the completion of the secretariat, but we didn’t see the money.”

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