Federal Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has dismissed reports alleging that he diverted the Kwara state 2019 All Progressives Congress (APC) general elections campaign funds.
Mohammed spoke on the backdrop of an allegation by the Kwara state Governor AbdulRahman that said cabals within the party who received hundreds of millions of naira as donations for the Kwara election did not deliver a kobo to him.
The minister instead revealed that he
singlehandedly raised all the funds for the prosecution of the elections in the state.
The minister said this in Ilorin, the state capital while addressing members at the new state party secretariat in GRA.
He said: “I never diverted APC 2019 general elections for my personal use as alleged by Kwara state Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq. By the grace of God I singlehandedly, with the support of friends, politicians and family raised all the monies for the Oke-Ero/Isin/Ekiti/Irepodun Federal Constituency by-election of November 2018 that brought Hon Tunji Olawuyi to the House of Representatives. And I challenge anybody here to say he gave the party one penny apart from what I gave them.”
