Daily Post Nigeria
Former SGF Babachir Lawal alleges that President Bola Tinubu personally funded Yemi Osinbajo's 2015 vice-presidential campaign and hired American political consultants. The claims suggest significant private financial influence in the APC's successful bid to bring Muhammadu Buhari to power.
Why it matters
The allegations shed light on the role of private wealth and foreign consultancy in Nigerian political campaigns, raising questions about campaign finance transparency.
Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, has claimed that President Bola Tinubu personally financed the vice-presidential campaign of former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo during the 2015 general election and spent more than N2 billion to hire political consultants linked to former United States President Barack Obama. Lawal made the claims during an interview with Symfoni TV released on Saturday while recounting Tinubu's contributions to the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential campaign that brought late former President Muhammadu Buhari to power. According to him, Tinubu mobilised substantial funds for the campaign and separately financed Osinbajo's campaign activities because they operated somewhat independently of the main Buhari campaign. "Through him (Tinubu), we were able to raise sufficient funds to do the campaign.
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