The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Federal Government to probe the campaign funds used by Muhammadu Buhari during the 2015 elections campaign.
Cambridge Analytica, a UK-based company in a wake of controversies has been accused of obtaining data of Facebook users for election manipulation. The firm according to a whistle-blower interfered in Nigeria’s 2015 elections by hiring hackers to dig information about President Muhammadu Buhari who was a candidate of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC).
A source from the Presidency told journalists on Sunday that the Federal Government has set up an in-house committee to investigate if Cambridge Analytica worked for the then ruling PDP but the PDP in reaction said this investigation should be extended to Buhari’s 2015 elections campaign team.
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“While we welcome an open investigation into the Cambridge Analytica saga, it demands that such inquest be extended to cover the sources of the looted funds used to prosecute President Buhari’s campaign in 2015.
“The All Progressives Congress (APC) and its Federal Government are chasing shadows in their desperate plot to implicate the opposition in the alleged hacking into the personal record of its Presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari,” the statement read in part.
National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, in the statement claimed that the APC is merely seeking to divert public attention from its manifold scandals by setting up the investigation team.
“It is already public knowledge that neither the PDP nor any of its officials or members were ever linked or indicted in any way, in the said saga.
“It is also public knowledge that the document being relied upon by the APC clinically stated that, “there is no suggestion that Jonathan knew of the covert operation,” PDP said.
The party, therefore, requested that the investigation should be open and independent of government control, so that Nigerians will know the truth, not only on the Cambridge Analytica saga, but also on the source of funds for the President Buhari’s 2015 campaign.
