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PDP presidential campaign council spent over 400bn on election – Dino Melaye
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign council reportedly spent more than N400 billion on their campaigns, according to Senator Dino Melaye, the Atiku-Okowa presidential campaign council’s spokesperson.
In a video that newsmen were able to obtain on Monday night, the spokesperson revealed this.
Melaye claimed that the entire idea of redesigning the naira was a ruse in the one minute, 45 second video.
This occurs just hours after the PDP leadership, led by Senator Iyorchia Ayu, stormed the INES headquarters in protest of the announcement that Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, would be the next president following the elections on February 25, 2023.
The PDP, Labour Party, and the New Nigeria Peoples Party rejected the results describing the election as being marred by violence, rigging, and lacking integrity by the non-uploading of the presidential election results on the IRev portal in real time on the Election Day thereby calling for its cancellation among others.
The PDP also lamented what it described as the irregularities recorded during the conduct of the elections.
Melaye further remarked that “to make sure that the mandate of the people given freely to Atiku Abubakar is retrieved, we spent over N400bn just for a caricature show. INEC deceived Nigerians.
On the naira redesign, the spokesperson alleged that “because money was given to Bola Tinubu, the APC shared new notes on Election Day across the country and the PDP was starved of funds. Naira redesign was a ploy by INEC to deceive Nigerians.
He also called on all PDP supporters, lovers of democracy all over the country not to allow this to stand.
