Investigation: Suspended APM Chairman In Fraud Net As Party Top Officials Drag Selves To Law Enforcement Agency

 

On Thursday, 7th April 2022, members of the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, a political party were seen at the FCT command opposite old CBN interacting with the law enforcement agents on the allegations against Yusuf Dantalle with a view to establishing the fact through structured investigations.

Earlier, there was a petition against him by the apex party leaders following his suspension as the National Chairman of the party which was based on fraudulent acts.

Yusuf Dantalle accepted the receipt of N16m from a candidate in tranches of N1m each to his personal bank account but added that the National Treasurer, and Ag. National Chairman Mrs. Rose D. S. Gyar was in the picture of all transactions. 

However, when Mrs. Rose D. S. Gyar was dragged into it through investigative questioning, she disclosed that out of the N16m, N1m was paid into the party's official account in FCMB, and added that she was always only informed when financial transactions are completed for her information only but not for her consent before the commencement of the transaction. 

Further investigations revealed that the suspended Chairman performed the roles of the Financial Secretary and Treasurer of the party with the support of the suspended National Secretary, Ayodele oyadeyi Adebayo. 

While interacting with Mallam Muhammed Bagana, the BOT Chairman of the party on the pronouncement of the dissolution of the Board and his dismissal from the party during the February 5th, 2022 NEC meeting, he simply said resolutions at that meeting cannot stand because most state Chairmen who came to attend that meeting were not the duly recognised Chairmen by INEC who participated in the Revalidation exercise of the party in 2019 but state chairmen that the suspended national chairman and Secretary appointed without recourse to party constitution or INEC guidelines for such. 

He further said that he was not invited to the party but he initiated the process of registering the party before he invited Yusuf Dantalle to come in as the National Chairman. 

He is therefore the custodian of all party instruments particularly the certificate and seal of the party. He continued that he and his members of  BOT would continue to serve as the conscience of the party to ensure that the party managers play according to the tenets of good governance while also upholding the motto of the party which is INTEGRITY, SACRIFICE, SERVICE.

The Ag. Party National Chairman, Mrs. Rose D. S. Gyar, while answering questions from journalists, she said, whether the party would toe the path of Alternative Dispute Resolution or whole go through the legal route to resolve the matter with the established facts through investigation, only time shall tell. 

"But, APM must note that time is of essence as INEC has rolled out its guidelines in accordance with the Electoral Act 2022 as Amended".

Reacting to the fraud allegedly committed by her predecessor, she said, " further to our publication of a press release on  15/3/2022 debunking the sale of APM by the Chairman of Board of Trustees of Allied Peoples' Movement (APM), Mallam Musa Bagana, our online crew has been trailing the activities of the party to ensure accurate information is placed in the public domain to ensure that Nigerians are given the opportunity for an informed decision on the choice of their leaders in the 2023 general elections.

"You would recall also that it was widely reported that chaos arose at the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the party held on 5th February 2022 where the suspended National Chairman, Yusuf Mamman Dantalle, and the BOT Chairman, Mallam Muhammed Bagana washed dirty linens in the public where the BOT accused  Yusuf Dantalle for embezzlement of party funds, defrauding unsuspecting citizens and using his personal account for financial transactions of the party. 

" However, the truth must prevail at the end of the tunnel and any found guilty would have to go in for it in accordance with the law", she added.