Nigeria: I Did Not Finance Atiku's Rally - APC Governor

Governor Muhammadu Bindow of Adamawa State has described as "malicious and false" an online report alleging that he gave N70 million to organisers of Saturday's rally in Yola by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, a presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party.

Mr Bindow in a statement on Sunday by his Special Adviser Press and Media Affairs, Martins Dickson, said the report trying to portray him as engaging in anti-party activities was cheap blackmail by those worried over his rising profile and that of APC in the state.

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