A Nigerian man created a stir at the All Progressives Congress (APC) national secretariat in Abuja, holding a placard that read: “Reward me or kill me.” The man, dressed in a blue APC-branded shirt, accused the party of abandoning him after he sold his house to support its 2023 election campaigns.
Speaking at the scene, he revealed that he had exhausted all his resources, leaving him unable to pay his children’s school fees. In his desperation, he said he had no choice but to leave his children in the care of 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.
When bystanders asked who sent him, the man pointed to his APC-branded shirt and replied, “These are the people that sent me.”
He said his sacrifices were tied to the party’s 2023 general election campaigns, after which he received no compensation.
