Jonathan denies spending ₦2 trillion on election campaign

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has denied spending N2 trillion for electioneering campaigns for his Peoples Democratic Party in the recently concluded general elections.

The presidency stated this in an official reaction to a story published on Nigerian newspapers that Mr. Jonathan was concerned about how campaign funds were spent without the desired victory in the polls and has called for a probe.



In stating the president’s stance, his spokesperson, Reuben Abati, told journalists in Abuja that “The President has not set up any committee as alleged in that story. It is also not true that the Presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party used state funds, or spent N2 trillion during the campaigns.”

Mr. Abati, who did not disclose an official amount spent by the presidency for the elections, alleged that the story was meant to ridicule the president.

“We are particularly worried that since the March 28 and April 11 elections, some persons have continued to work very hard to diminish the Jonathan Presidency,” he said.

Mr. Jonathan lost the March 28 presidential elections to Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC. The president’s Peoples Democratic Party also lost the majority in both chambers of the parliament as well as losing more state executive and legislative positions to the APC.