The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed allegations by former Vice President and African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, that the 2026 Service-Wide Vote (SWV) was created to fund President Bola Tinubu’s 2027 re-election campaign.
The APC described the allegation as “mischievous” and a demonstration of “disturbing ignorance” of basic public finance principles.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, made its position known in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
Mr Morka said Atiku had become “more disoriented and misguided than ever before” in the history of his “failed serial presidential bid,” accusing him of making a sensational allegation without providing facts to substantiate it.
The former vice president, who is seeking to return to the presidential contest in 2027 under the ADC, had alleged that the Service-Wide Vote in the 2026 budget was set aside to fund Mr Tinubu’s re-election campaign.
