The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed allegations by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar that the 2026 Service-Wide Vote (SWV) was designed to secretly fund President Bola Tinubu’s 2027 re-election campaign, describing the claim as false, baseless and a sign of what it called Atiku’s ignorance of public finance.
The ruling party also accused the former vice president of trying to mislead Nigerians with allegations unsupported by evidence.
In a statement issued on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, the APC said Atiku’s allegation was “highly mischievous” and based on speculation rather than facts.
The party insisted that the Service-Wide Vote is a long-established budgetary provision used to meet government-wide obligations and unforeseen expenditures after the annual budget has been passed, stressing that it is neither a secret fund nor an illegal account.
The APC said Atiku failed to provide any evidence to support his allegation that the
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