{"id":3027,"date":"2026-10-29T08:02:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T08:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/ministers-pay-billions-claim-was-about-past-governments-apc\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T08:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T08:02:29","slug":"ministers-pay-billions-claim-was-about-past-governments-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/ministers-pay-billions-claim-was-about-past-governments-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministers-pay-billions claim was about past governments \u2014 APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The All Progressives Congress has denied that ministers serving under President Bola Tinubu paid billions of naira to secure their appointments.\n<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, made the clarification during an interview on Arise Television\u2019s Prime Time on Wednesday.\n<\/p>\n<p>Morka insisted that a controversial statement by a party chieftain, Alwan Hassan, referred to previous administrations.\n<\/p>\n<p>PUNCH Online had reported that Hassan, a spokesperson for the APC Presidential Campaign Council, had <a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/some-ministers-pay-billions-to-get-appointed-apc-campaign-spokesman\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">alleged<\/a> that some ministers pay huge sums to obtain government appointments and subsequently seek to recover the money after assuming office.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during an interview on Arise News on Thursday, October 22, while defending Tinubu\u2019s management of government revenue and expenditure,<\/p>\n<p>Hassan had said, \u201cThe way Asiwaju is hands-on on the expenditure of our revenue is fantastic and I love it. A lot of ministers pay billions and billions, and, you know, to get themselves appointed. The first thing they think of is how to recoup that money.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>He also argued that the alleged practice was not peculiar to the ruling party, saying, \u201cBut this is the truth I\u2019m telling you about our country. Not just APC. Before APC, the biggest fraudulent people you arrest after every government are ministers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hassan\u2019s allegation, however, did not identify any minister who paid for an appointment or provide specific evidence of the purported transactions. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>His comments generated controversy, with questions raised about whether financial inducements influenced ministerial appointments and who allegedly received the money.\n<\/p>\n<p>However, Morka said the remarks had been taken out of context and wrongly interpreted as an allegation against the Tinubu administration. He accused opposition figures of using the statement to discredit the government.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Alwan Hassan said ministers pay billions to be appointed, he was not speaking about the current administration. It was in a historical context.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis frame of thought was not talking about the present but the past. As a public commentator, you sometimes generalise without drawing lines,\u201d Morka said.\n<\/p>\n<p>The APC spokesman maintained that appointments under Tinubu were based on merit, competence and the capacity to deliver, rather than financial inducements.\n<\/p>\n<p>He urged Nigerians to disregard suggestions that ministers in the President\u2019s cabinet paid money to secure their positions.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All Progressives Congress has denied that ministers serving under President Bola Tinubu paid billions of naira to secure their appointments. 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