Tinubu/Shettima Campaign Council calls for Atiku’s arrest, prosecution over purchase of SPVs

The Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the Department of State Services (DSS) to arrest and prosecute the People’s Democratic Party, PDP’s Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, over the purchase of a Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs).

In a statement jointly signed by its Special Adviser, Media, Communications and Public Affairs, Mr. Dele Alake; Director, Public Affairs and Chief Spokesperson, Mr. Festus Keyamo, SAN; Director, Media and Publicity, Mr. Bayo Onanuga; Director, Special Media Projects/New Media, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode; and Director, Strategic Communications, Alhaji Idris Mohammed, at the end of a briefing, it  drew the attention of  security agencies  to the revelations made by a whistle-blower, Mr. Michael Achimugu, who revealed  how Atiku Abubakar, during his tenure as Vice-President of Nigeria between 1999 and 2007, allegedly colluded with his then boss, President Olusegun Obasanjo, to use  public funds to purchase the “Special Purpose Vehicles”, SPVs.

The APC PCC alleged that the SPVs were purchased through companies that Atiku  registered upon assumption of office as Vice-President (with the approval of President Olusegun Obasanjo) using “trusted allies” as shareholders and directors.

It alleged that the purpose was to divert government contracts to these companies as “consultants” and then paid monies into these companies and used those monies to fund the PDP and their private businesses and family activities.