The issue of monitoring campaign funding and spending has pitched the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against each other.
While the electoral umpire said yesterday that its decision to beam its searchlights on campaign spending by political parties and their candidates was not one-sided, the PDP has expressed fear that INEC could hide under the cover of campaign funds monitoring to do the bidding of the governing All Progressives Party (APC).
The PDP has, therefore, warned the commission against using the exercise as a tool to witch-hunt the party.
But the commission has insisted that it is only carrying out its constitutional functions and not targeting any political party.
INEC chairman’s chief press secretary, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, while responding to inquiries yesterday, refuted the allegations that its monitoring of campaign spending was targeted at a particular political party.
“That is not correct,”…
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