President Goodluck Jonathan has denied that he expended
as much as N2trillion for campaigns ahead of the just-
concluded general elections in which he was defeated by
Muhammadu Buhari of the APC.
He also denied setting up a committee to conduct an audit
of how the elections funds were disbursed by party
members and state officials.
“The President has not set up any committee as
alleged in that story. It is also not true that the
Presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party used
state funds, or spent N2tn on the campaigns. The
innuendoes are wrong-headed; the motives behind
the story are suspicious.”
Jonathan made the clarification in a statement by his
Special Adviser on Media, Dr. Reuben Abati.
Abati was reacting to a story by Punch titled, “Jonathan
demands N2tn election funds refund, audit.”
He described the report as “false and embarrassing.” The
presidential spokesman said with the country’s budget
being a little above N4tn, the story suggested that half of
the budget was spent on elections.
This insinuation, he argued, was meant to incite the public.
Abati said the Presidency was worried that since the March
28 and April 11 elections, some persons had continued to
work very hard to diminish the Jonathan Presidency. CLICK HERE TO READ FULL AND TOUCHING NIGERIAN CELEBRITIES BIOGRAPHY AND SCANDALS
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