A Nigerian man stormed the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja, wielding a placard that read “Reward me or kill me,” claiming the party abandoned him after he sold his house working for its 2023 election campaigns.
The man, who wore an APC-branded blue shirt, said he had no money left to pay his children’s school fees and had resorted to leaving them with the party’s Chief Security Officer.
The protest was captured in a video that began circulating on Facebook on Thursday night before being widely shared on X by the handle @dammiedammie35, from where it went viral.
In the footage, the man paced the entrance of the secretariat under bright daylight, raising his placard and shouting his grievances toward the building while security personnel stood nearby and bystanders watched, some recording on their phones.
“I sold my house because of the debt I seemed to owe APC. Because of the work I worked for APC,” he said in the video.
He said his sacrifices were tied to the party’s 2023 general election campaigns, after which he received no compensation.
“This is the work I did for APC and at the end of it, no reward. Rather, the CSO threatened to shoot me and nothing will happen,” he said.
The man added that his children’s whereabouts had become unknown to him after he left them at the party secretariat out of desperation.
“Since yesterday, my children, I don’t know where they are. I dropped my children with the CSO and APC because I cannot take care of them again. I cannot pay school fees anymore,” he said.
The banner he carried read in full: “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 official of the APC came out to address him throughout the protest, according to the footage