Kaduna denies viral letter claiming ₦2.3tn released for APC campaign flag-off
- Kaduna State Government says a viral letter claiming Governor Uba Sani released ₦2.3 trillion for the APC presidential campaign flag-off is forged.
- Information Commissioner Ahmed Maiyaki said the sum is more than twice the state's 2026 budget of ₦985.92 billion.
- The government says it is tracing the letter's origin and has asked security agencies to investigate.
The Kaduna State Government has dismissed a letter circulating online that claims Governor Uba Sani approved and released ₦2.3 trillion for the flag-off of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign.
The Commissioner for Information and Culture, Ahmed Maiyaki, said in a statement in Kaduna on Saturday that the document is fake and was put out to mislead the public.
According to the government, the letter is dated 18 October 2026 and titled "Notification for Preparations for the Grand Rally Flag Off". It was said to be addressed to Senator Abdulazeez Yari as Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council.
Why the government says the letter is fake
Maiyaki said the figure does not add up. Kaduna's approved 2026 budget is ₦985.92 billion, so the ₦2.3 trillion in the letter is more than twice what the state plans to spend in a whole year.
He said there is no appropriation, approval or spending record to back the claim.
The commissioner also pointed to errors in the document. The governor's surname was misspelled as "Uba Sai", and his signature appeared to have been reproduced without permission.
"The Kaduna State Government categorically disowns this document. Gov. Uba Sani neither authored nor authorised the purported letter, and no N2.3 trillion was budgeted, approved or released," Maiyaki said.
He said the government is working to find out who produced the letter and has asked security and investigative agencies to look into it and take legal action against anyone found responsible.
Maiyaki warned that forging official correspondence and spreading false claims about public spending could be criminal offences. He urged journalists and members of the public to check documents before sharing them.
What happens next
The statement did not name anyone behind the letter, and the government said the circumstances around it are still being investigated.
Maiyaki linked the letter to what he called coordinated misinformation aimed at damaging the governor's reputation ahead of the 2027 general elections. He said Sani, who took office on 29 May 2023, has focused on fiscal discipline and on spending in security, infrastructure, education, healthcare, agriculture and social protection.
For ordinary Kaduna residents, the dispute matters because it touches on how their state's money is spent. The government's own budget figure is the clearest check: a single campaign payment larger than the entire state budget for the year would be hard to hide in the books.
