The Peoples Democratic Party presidential campaign council has insisted that the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, is hoarding new naira notes to allegedly buy votes.

The PDP PCC, therefore, urged Tinubu and his co-travelers in the APC to end the alleged hoarding of the new naira notes.

The PDP and the APC campaigns had been trading accusations since the Independent National Electoral Commission lifted the ban on political campaigns last year ahead of this year’s general elections.

The PDP had accused the APC leaders and Tinubu of plotting “to secretly swap a whooping N22.5bn in old N1000 new notes in Kano as well as Lagos State where they will be warehoused for vote-buying for the deflated Tinubu campaign.”

The PDP campaign spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement on Tuesday, insisted that “the Tinubu campaign is desperate to mop up new naira notes by allegedly swapping them with their ill-gotten old notes stashed away in secret vaults, because, they had relied solely on alleged vote-buying.”

Ologbondiyan said the PDP campaign was disturbed by the hardship being experienced by Nigerians amid scarcity of naira notes.

“We find it disheartening that Tinubu and his allies are taking Nigerians from APC-induced seven years of weaponised hunger to a wholesome poverty by triggering this alleged unbearable cash scarcity that has wrecked small businesses, destabilised homes and sunk millions of Nigerians into deeper financial abyss,” he said.

Reacting to the PDP’s claim, the Director of Media and Communication for Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga, said, “Let them provide the evidence if they uncovered such. It is not enough to dish out cock and bull stories in the name of press releases.”

Making senseless allegations every passing day which has become the hallmark of PDP campaign is not how to win election.

“Nigerians can’t forget a party of people that looted over $2bn dollars meant for arms procurement when Boko Haram was killing our citizens and almost took over three states in the North-East.

“We challenge the PDP to bring out any evidence of their latest allegation otherwise the party of looters should hide its ugly face in perpetual shame.”