Embattled PDP pays workers in cash as it battles ghost workers

The battle against ghost workers has received a new ally, as the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP ) has reportedly detected ghost workers on its payroll.

The discovery followed an order that workers at the national secretariat of the party line up to collect their salaries in cash. This, reports say may be connected to the lean financial position of the party at the moment.

The National Chairman of the party, Ali Modu Sheriff, was said to have been worried about the huge salary bill of the workers and decided to ascertain the actual number of workers at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja. This is said to be in addition to huge debt of N872 million debt he met when assumed the leadership of the party.

Worried by this, Sheriff was said to have taken members of the National Working Committee by surprise when on Thursday he directed the workers to get their salaries in cash.

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A management employee, who spoke confidence with reporters on Sunday, said that they were surprised when they (the workers) were directed to assemble inside the National Executive Committee hall at the national secretariat.

He said: “Sheriff has started the restructuring of the PDP for efficient and effective performance.

“March 24 will ever be a day to remember in our party. On that day, as early as 11am, the NWC and members of staff of the PDP, under the instruction of our national chairman, moved into the conference hall.

“The chairman also joined everyone in the hall. And to the surprise of all, the business of the day was the payment of staff salaries, which was done department after department.

“One after the other, after individual’s physical verification of each file and identity, thereafter you are then paid your salary in cash.”

The exercise was chaired by the national chairman who directed the National Treasurer, Mr. Buhari Bala, to call the workers by their departments, while fictitious names were said to have been discovered during the exercise.

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