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.