The Transition Monitoring
Group (TMG) – a coalition of over 400 civic organizations –alleged yesterday
that agents of the Jonathan administration offered it a bribe of N2 billion for
the purpose of compromising the outcome of the 2015 elections.
The bribe offer came by
way of what the TMG chairman, Comrade Ibrahim Zikirullahi,
branded a dubious proposal.
”Specifically, some
errand boys from the Presidency at the time came to us with a dubious proposal
that 50,000 agents of the PDP be fielded as TMG observers,” Zikirullahi
said in a statement.
“In financial terms, the
errand boys expressed the Presidency’s readiness to fund the fraud with the sum
of N2 billion Naira.”
The allegation is coming
on the heels of ongoing investigation by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) into how $115million (N23.299billion) was
contributed by some oil barons and shared to some electoral
officials to rig the elections in favour of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.
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