The Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State said yesterday it has uncovered
plans by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to induce voters
with over N2bn fake naira and dollar notes which it also claimed
was already in circulation in the state.
\Making this revelation in a
statement made available to newsmen in Yenagoa, the state capital, the
Director of Publicity of the Restoration Campaign Organization, Jonathan
Obuebite called on the general public to examine the money they are collecting
from members of the opposition party.
Obuebite,
who said the act is a criminal
and punishable offence under the law, asserted that the PDP reliably
gathered that over N2 billion has been put into circulation by
the APC to influence voters in a desperate move to rig the
election.
He stated that the resort
to printing and circulation of fake currencies was due to inability
of the APC to raise enough fundssince the high expectation of financial
support from the Niger Delta Development
Commission (NDDC) failed having refused to fund the campaign of
its gubernatorial candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva.
Obuebite commended President
Muhammadu Buhari who, he claimed, personally stopped the NDDC from
releasing about N4 billion that was meant to fund APC candidate for
the December 5 election in Bayelsa State.
“It would be
recalled that PDP had prior to this criminal actraised alarm over
plans by the NDDC to award phony contracts to fund Sylva’s
election. Having failed in this aspect, the party has perfected another
plan to induce innocent voters with fake naira and dollar notes that are
already in circulation”, the statement informed.
The PDP, therefore, called on
the security operatives and other relevant agencies to step into the matter and
bring the culprits to book.
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