The Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, in the February 23 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, have insisted that the Trader-Monipolicy of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration was a vote-buying scheme that lacked budgetary backing.
Atiku and his party described the policy as “illegal and corrupt extra-budgetary spending.”
They stated this in their reply to the response by Buhari to their petition filed before the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal to challenge the outcome of the February 23 election.
Alleging manipulations and corruption in the Independent National Electoral Commission’s declaration of Buhari and his All Progressives Congress as the winner of the poll, the petitioners urged the tribunal to declare them as the true winner. Read more