By Umar Yusuf

YOLA Barely few days after the Presidential election, Adamawa State chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), is engulfed in fresh crisis, following alleged disagreement and lopsided distribution of campaign funds, allocated to the state by the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation.

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Sources told Vanguard that the failure of some party chieftains to evenly distribute the  N2.5billion funds for the purpose of winning the presidential election was responsible for the defeat of President Muhammadu Buhari by his major challenger, Atiku Abubakar who is an indigene  of the state.

The source alleged that the sum of N2.5 billion was allocated to the state through a top government appointee of President Buhari who also lost his local government council area to the opposition.

The fund was for the purpose of mobilizing support and logistics for the conduct of the elections.

It was alleged that instead some stakeholders sat on the campaign fund.

The development which has been causing ripples in the party, reportedly led to moves by aggrieved party members to move for the removal of a top party official who they suspected of being behind the alleged mismanagement of the logistics funds.

The source said many of the stakeholders like the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Boss Mustapha, General Buba Marwa, Dr. Idi Hong, the chairman of Nigeria Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah, Senator Binta Masi Garba lost in their local governments.

The APC entered the election with much crisis in its wings.

Only a few days to the election, a top party functionary, Dr.Mahmud Halilu accused Governor Muhammad Umar Jibrilla of working in favour of the opposition political party.

Responding to the issue, the commissioner of Information and strategy, Mallam Ahmed Sajoh said the crisis in the party was caused by those who took Governor Bindow as an enemy.

He added that party stalwarts deliberately sabotaged the party, leading to its defeat in some areas so as to humiliate Bindow.

Also responding, the publicity secretary of the party, Ahmed Lawal said the party lost the election as a result of the internal party wrangling culminating in some party stalwarts openly campaigning against the election of others.

‘’The party was seriously concerned about the attitude of some party members who openly rejected some candidates of the party. Any party member found wanting will be sanctioned according to extant constitutional provisions,’’ he said.