Kuku Denies Contributing Funds for APC Presidential Election
Special adviser to the President on Niger Delta Matters, Kingsley Kuku, has denied contributing funds to the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the just concluded presidential elections.
Kuku said he had to make this unequivocally clear because of the insinuations going on in the social media and other media platforms, describing the allegation as mischievous and the handiwork of persons aimed at stoking the embers of hate in order to curry political favours from the incoming federal government.
Speaking in an interview to reporters at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos yesterday, Kuku challenged those circulating the falsehood to show proof that he contributed money to the APC.
He said people circulating the information are bent on using the smear campaign deliberately sculpted to sully his reputation for cheap political gains.
“It is deeply worrisome that at a time when the nation has resolved to move on without any form of post-election acrimony some mischievous persons are out there stoking the embers of hate in order to curry political favours from the in-coming federal government. They are claiming in the social media and other platforms that I contributed funds to the All Peoples Congress (APC) during the presidential election campaign.
“This claim is clearly mischievous and deliberately sculpted to sully my reputation by ignorant political jobbers. Ordinarily, I would have ignored this laughable claim, given the fact that all discerning Nigerians are well aware that I loyally gave the PDP my best and even my all during the presidential and gubernatorial/ state assembly elections.
“However conscious of the fact that once falsehood goes unchallenged it tends to wear the garb of truth at some point, I have elected to place on record the fact that I did not contribute a dime to the APC,” Kuku said.
He said that he could not have given money to APC considering how deeply involved he was with his party, the PDP “and our dear leader, President Goodluck Jonathan, during all elections.”
He therefore advised Nigerians and friends of Nigeria to totally disregard the falsehood making the rounds in the social media that he contributed funds to the APC, adding that the claim must be dismissed for what it is, “a calculated attempt to pitch me against the President and other leaders of my party, the PDP. While challenging the persons circulating this falsehood to show proof of my funding of the APC, I plead with them to simply let me be.”