Hammed Shittu in Ilorin
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed yesterday disclosed that he raised the funds with which All Progressives Congress (APC) fought the 2019 general election in his home state of Kwara. Mohammed denied allegations of diversion of APC campaign funds in the state.
The minister gave this figure at a meeting with members of APC at its new state secretariat in GRA, Ilorin yesterday, denying allegations of diversion of APC campaign funds in the state.
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq had alleged that a cabal within the party had received hundreds of millions of naira in donations for the 2019 general election in Kwara State but did not deliver any money to him as the state’s APC leader.
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Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, has denied embezzling and diverting 2019 campaign funds in Kwara State.
Mohammed who was reacting to an allegation by the State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, insisted that he raised over N150m to prosecute the 2019 general elections in the state.
AbdulRazaq had alleged that prior to the 2019 general elections in Kwara State, a cabal within the APC had millions of naira in donations and never remitted the money to him.
However, Mohammed insisted that the governor failed to account for the money he and his friends raised for the party in 2019.