Ahead of Saturday’s presidential election, the All Progresives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) yesterday alleged that President Goodluck Jonathan has commenced the disbursement of alleged N50million bribe to traditional rulers and opinion leaders in the North.
Addressing newsmen in Abuja, APCPCO spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, said the bribe was meant to sway support of the traditional rulers for beneficiaries. He, however, did not disclose the identities of the emirs and other.
Shehu said: “President Jonathan has been criss-crossing Nigeria, giving an average of N50 million each to traditional rulers, most especially in the South-West and the northern parts of Nigeria. This week, the President’s campaign money is being shipped to the North. Letters in English and Hausa backed by millions in cash are being dispatched to willing rulers in the region. Religious leaders, trade unions, youth organisations, professional bodies, entertainers are not ruled out of the money sharing jamboree of President Jonathan”.
Besides, the campaign organisation accused the President of having spent a whopping N1trillion on hate campaign against the APC candidate.
Shehu said such money was more than what Buhari intends to spend on feeding pupils if he wins the election.
“A fraction of the trillion naira hate campaign expenditure will fund the APC programme of feeding primary school pupils on one nutritional meal a day, comfortably pay N5,000 monthly to 25 million very poor Nigerians for a year and pay unemployment benefit for one year for graduates who can’t find jobs one year after the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) which are core to the social welfare programmes of the APC Federal Government that Gen Buhari will lead.
“We will like to bring to your attention and that of Nigerians how the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government is wasting one trillion Naira that belongs to Nigerian people in his self-serving and desperate bid for a re-election at all cost in the midst of grinding poverty his party and government has subjected Nigerians to in the last 16 years,” Shehu said.
“It is unconscionable and the height of betrayal of public trust that a government and a President who should preside over the husbandry and judicious use of our national patrimony is superintending over its massive squander in a futile attempt to stop the idea of change. Let us sound a note of warning at this point that no amount of sponsored negative media propaganda can stop this idea whose time has come.
“The APC Presidential Campaign and the acceptability of our candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari and his vice presidential candidate, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, has become a people’s movement and the masses who are the drivers of change are the major stakeholders,” Shehu said.
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