The Peoples Democratic Party in Bayelsa State said on Monday that it has uncovered plans by the All Progressives Congress to induce voters with over N2 billion fake naira and dollar notes.
The PDP said the notes are already in circulation in the state.
Making this allegation in a statement in Yenagoa, the state capital, was the Director of Publicity of the Restoration Campaign Organization, Jonathan Obuebite, who 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 the inability of the APC to raise enough funds since the high expectation of financial support from the Niger Delta Development Commission 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.
Obuebite said in a statement on Monday: “It would be recalled that PDP had prior to this criminal act raised 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 PDP, therefore, called on security operatives and other relevant agencies to step into the matter and bring the culprits to book.