By Fatima Zahra Muhammad
ASHENEWS reports that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that the campaign group of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is planning to swap old Naira Notes worth N22.5 billion.
The PDP, which made this allegation in a statement issued in Monday by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba said that these funds would be used for vote buying in the coming elections in the country.
This ‘clandestine plot’ to swap the old naira notes according to the PDP is being done with the help of two APC Governors in the North West.
“Information available to our party reveals that this criminal act by the APC which is responsible for the biting cash scarcity is being coordinated in the North West region by two APC state governors who ironically have been very vocal in lamentation over the prevailing cash crunch.
“The PDP has been made aware that the N22.5 billion in old N1000 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.
“Further information revealed that the cash is being warehoused by the Tinubu Campaign for 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 actualize the vote-buying plot.
“Also, there are intelligence that arrangement has been concluded by APC leaders to move a substantial part of the old naira notes from Kano to Lagos State between today and tomorrow for the purposes of swapping them with new ones,”
The PDP, therefore, urged security agencies and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to act immediately to thwart the plans of the APC.
“It would be recalled that the PDP had earlier alerted Nigerians that corrupt APC leaders are compromising the system to mop up the new bank notes for their selfish vote-buying plans ahead of the February 25, 2023, Presidential election.
“The party alerts the security agencies and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) of this nefarious activity by APC leaders which is bringing untold hardship to Nigerians,” the PDP statement said.
