All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) has challenged the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to provide evidence to back its allegation that the ruling party has stashed N22.5 billion of old currency notes to be swapped for new ones to buy votes in the forthcoming general election.
Gatekeepers News reports that the APC Campaign Council described the allegations as a cock and bull story.
In a statement on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary Debo Ologunagba, the PDP had alleged that it was “aware that the N22.5 billion in old N1,000 notes was allegedly kept in a Kano State Government facility before being moved to a particular old generation and a certain new generation bank where the regional heads were contacted by the APC presidential campaign to swap the old notes with new ones”.
It added: “Further information revealed that the cash is being warehoused by the Tinubu campaign for alleged vote-buying in Kano, Kaduna, Bauchi, Jigawa and Sokoto states. A particular APC state governor is reported to have taken delivery of N500 million new naira notes to actualise the vote-buying plot.”
Speaking to reporters over the allegations, the Director of Media and Publicity of the APC PCC, Bayo Onanuga, said the allegation was baseless and unfounded.
