Keyamo Reacts As Police Arrest Atiku’s Campaigner With $500,000 In Rivers

The Chief Spokesman for the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council (APC PCC), Festus Keyamo, has reacted to the arrest of a member of the House of Representatives, Chinyere Igwe, by the Rivers Police Command.

Naija News reported that the police arrested Igwe, a supporter of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flagbearer, Atiku Abubakar, was arrested in possession of $500,000 US Dollars along Aba Road in Port Harcourt, the State capital.

Apart from the foreign currency in his possession, the Police also found a list of how the money will be distributed to beneficiaries in the 23 local government areas of the State as well as security agencies and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Speaking about the arrest of the lawmaker, the Rivers Police Command, in a statement shared on Twitter, said that the lawmaker was arrested for money laundering.

Reacting to the development in a tweet via his verified Twitter handle on Friday, Keyamo mocked the opposition PDP for planing to buy votes with the cash found with the lawmaker.

The Minister of State for Labour and Employment said the party was deceiving Nigerians and spreading the propaganda that the naira redesign policy was meant to stop the APC presidential candidacy, Bola Tinubu, who wants to buy votes.

He wrote: “They were deceiving the public and spreading the propaganda that the NAIRA redesign policy was meant to stop a particular candidate who wants to buy votes. See them now”