The Federal Government on Friday said it is crazy and untrue claims that President Muhammadu Buhari donated $500m to Hillary Clinton campaign in the just-concluded US election.
A video, purportedly circulated by a US non-governmental group, the American Black Group for Democracy, had last week alleged that Nigeria donated $500m (about N150bn) to Clinton’s failed bid for the White House.
It claimed that the money was “pledged to the US secretary of states, Sen John Kerry, and US Ambassador in Abuja”; adding that “the donation may create a huge misunderstanding between Nigeria and the incoming Trump’s US government.”
But in a reaction on Friday, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Mr. Garba Shehu, described the accusations as crazy, insisting that “Nigeria doesn’t have this kind of money to throw around.”
“What is the craziest accusation made against President Buhari?” Shehu posted on his Twitter handle, @GarShehu.
