A yet-to-be-identified Nigerian man caused a scene at the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress in Abuja, carrying a placard that read, “Reward me or kill me.”
He alleged that after sacrificing everything including selling his house to support the party during the 2023 election campaigns, he had been abandoned.
Dressed in a blue APC-branded shirt, the man said he was now broke and unable to afford his children’s school fees.
In desperation, he claimed he had left his children in the care of the party’s Chief Security Officer.
The incident was recorded in a video that surfaced on Facebook on Thursday night. It quickly spread across social media after being reposted on X by the handle @dammiedammie35, eventually going 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.
“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.
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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.”
The roughly 30-second clip, shot vertically on a phone camera, showed the man visibly distressed, pacing back and forth, his voice strained and his expression etched with despair as he repeatedly hoisted the placard toward the secretariat gate.
No official of the APC came out to address him throughout the protest, according to the footage.
Reactions on social media were largely unsympathetic, with many Nigerians mocking his expectation of personal rewards for partisan work.
The APC had not issued any statement on the incident as of the time of filing this report.