Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar has denied it authorised any form of grant.
Atiku in a statement signed by his Presidential Campaign Organization and made available to The Next Edition, on Saturday, stated that neither he nor his campaign organization approved a grant.
The statement read in part, “Our attention has been brought to a scheme whereby innocent hardworking Nigerians are being asked to buy a form for a sum of N500 in order for them to be beneficiaries of a financial grant allegedly being sponsored by Atiku Abubakar.
“We want to put it on record that neither the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar nor the campaign organisation gave any approval to this scheme or any other one like it.
“We are aware that a great number of Nigerians are passing through rough patches as millions of people have slipped into the poverty conveyor belt as a result of the bad socio-economic policies of the current administration since 2015.
“Jobs are being lost in quantum scale, businesses are folding up, foreign investors are afraid to bring in new capital for investments and the cost of living has ballooned to skyrocket proportion.
“The immediate consequence of all these is that the Nigerian has been laid prostrate for fleecing, out of the desperate bid to burrow their way out of financial incapacitation.”
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The campaign organisation urged Nigerians to be wise not to fall for such fraudulent schemes but to vote Atiku Abubakar come 2019 so he could turn around the economic fortunes of Nigerians.
“We therefore urge hardworking Nigerians not to fall victims of these fraudulent schemes and remind our compatriots, once again, that the election next year is about a choice between the current economic meltdown and a fresh opportunity to create more jobs for our people and get Nigeria working again.”
