‘How did you transfer N750bn to people without phones?’ — Atiku tackles APC chair

By Ayobami Okerinde
Former Vice President and African Democratic Congress presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has challenged the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Nentawe Yilwatda, to explain how the Federal Government transferred money to more than 10 million Nigerians who, according to the APC chairman, do not have mobile phones.
Recall Vanguard reported that Yilwatda last week while speaking with journalists after a three-day retreat of the APC National Executive Council in Maiduguri, Borno State, had said the beneficiaries of the Federal Government’s N75,000 conditional cash transfer programme were largely poor and vulnerable Nigerians without phones, telev...