2019 Elections
Elections: I can spend my money as I like, Tinubu reacts to photos of bullion vans
A Former Lagos State Governor and Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on Saturday said he can can spend his money as he likes because he is neither a government contractor nor work with any government parastatal.
Tinubu made the remark after voting at his Unit 047, Ward 3, in Ikeja, during an interactive session with newsmen where he reacted to question about pictures circulating online showing bullion vans in his house on the eve of the presidential and National Assembly elections.
He said that there was no iota of truth in the online video in circulation claiming that he had bullion vans in his house distributing money.
Tinubu said:
“I am not a government contractor, and I don’t have bullion vans because I don’t store ballot papers. If I may ask, where am I voting now? This is not my house.
“I don’t work with any government agencies and let anybody come out to say that I have taken contracts from the government of President Buhari in the last four years.
“They should prove it. I am on my own and committed to my party. Even if I have the money to spend in my premises, what is anybody’s headache since I don’t run the government.
“I can spend my money as I like and if I want; if it pleases me I can give it to the people free of charge as long as it is not meant to buy votes.
“I want to ask, who are those watching my house to see what I am doing? They must be mischievous, they are liars,” he said.
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