By Reloaded News Desk
The Kaduna State Government has dismissed as fabricated a viral letter claiming that Governor Uba Sani approved ₦2.3 trillion to host the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign rally for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The government described the document as fraudulent and misleading, denying that the governor authorised any such expenditure.
The controversy emerged on Saturday as the APC prepared to hold its presidential campaign flag-off in Kaduna.
The purported letter, dated October 18, 2026, was allegedly addressed to Senator Abdulaziz Yari, Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, and reportedly described plans for a major campaign rally in Northern Nigeria.
However, Kaduna State Commissioner for Information and Culture, Ahmed Maiyaki, said the government disowned the document and maintained that neither the governor nor the state government approved or released ₦2.3 trillion for the event.
According to the statement, the government also pointed to discrepancies in the document, including the misspelling of the governor’s surname as “Uba Sai” and the apparent unauthorised reproduction of his signature.
Maiyaki said the purported expenditure was unsupported by authentic appropriation, approval or expenditure records.
The state government said Kaduna’s 2026 budget stood at ₦985.92 billion, significantly below the ₦2.3 trillion cited in the viral letter.
The APC Presidential Campaign Council also rejected the allegation.
In a statement signed by its spokesperson, Dele Alake, the council described the document as fake and questioned the plausibility of a state spending more than its annual budget on a political rally.
Alake cited Kaduna’s budgets of ₦458.271 billion in 2024, ₦790.439 billion in 2025 and ₦985.9 billion in 2026, arguing that their combined value remained below the amount claimed in the purported letter. The figures cited by the council reinforce the scale of the allegation.
APC accuses Atiku, ADC of disinformation
The APC campaign council went further, accusing former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and the African Democratic Congress (ADC) of participating in a coordinated effort to undermine the Kaduna rally through alleged fake documents, manipulated images and deepfake videos.
Alake claimed that the alleged campaign began with the circulation of a photograph of a security vehicle near an APC campaign billboard, which he said was misrepresented online.
He also alleged that the purported ₦2.3 trillion letter formed part of the same effort.
The episode highlights the risks of circulating purported government correspondence without verifying its origin, particularly during politically sensitive events.
The viral letter attributed an extraordinary expenditure to the Kaduna government, but the state has denied authorising it, while the APC campaign council has challenged its authenticity.
No independently verified expenditure record or authentic approval document has been produced in the material reviewed by Reloaded News to substantiate the ₦2.3 trillion claim.
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