2019: Atiku replies APC after party claims he, PDP struggling for money to fund campaign

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has responded to the claim by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that he and his party have no money to fund his campaign.

Atiku said the 2019 election will not be won by “money or lies or propaganda or intimidation but by the supreme will of the Nigerian people as expressed in their vote.”

APC had in a statement earlier on Tuesday through its deputy national publicity secretary, Yekini Nabena, said:

“The presidential candidate (Atiku) expects the party to provide funds for his campaign. This is the Buhari era, an era of strict accountability and transparency in the use and application of public funds and not the Jonathan era in 2015 when the national treasury was open to PDP leaders to prosecute the presidential campaign.

“The party leaders are therefore in serious difficulties and dilemma on how to source funds to run the Atiku Presidential Campaign.

“Some financiers of the party expect that the candidate, having bought the ticket with millions of dollars, should have the financial capacity to run his campaign.

“With the candidate’s expectation that it is the party that will fund his campaign, it is now clear that they are at a crossroads and the chickens have come home to roost.”

Nabena the advised anti-corruption agencies in the country to ensure that all sources of campaign fund by political parties are closely monitored.

But in his response through his spokesman, Paul Ibe, Atiku asked Nigerians to disregard Nabena’s claim because the forthcoming election would not be about money but the supreme will of Nigerians.

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“Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come. Nothing can stop the zeal of Nigerians to elect the President of their choice.

“This election will not be won by money or lies or propaganda or intimidation but by the supreme will of the Nigerian people as expressed in their vote.

“Atiku Abubakar will be elected as President by Nigerians in February 2019, notwithstanding the machinations of the APC- led administration,” he said.

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