National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has denied allegations of plans to rig the 2019 general elections after two bullion vans were seen entering his Bourdillion apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos.
Nigerians reacted with outrage to the viral video of the bullion vans making their way into Tinubu’s residence.
However, after casting his vote on Saturday in Alausa, Tinubu said he had a right to his own money as he was not a government official.
Tinubu said: “Bullion vans, are those ballot papers? Where am I voting now? Is it my money or government’s money? I don’t work for government. I am not in any agency of government and let anyone come out to say I have taken any contract from the government of President Muhammadu Buhari of APC in the last five years. They should prove it.
“I am on my own and I am committed to my party. So, even if I have money to spend in my premises, what’s your headache? I don’t represent any government’s agency. If I have money, I’ll give it to whomever I like; to the people free of charge, as long as it is not to buy votes. So, who are those watching my house? They must be mischief makers.”
The contents of the vans could not be ascertained, however, Nigerians have expressed their fears of the development on Twitter.
