Following rife allegations that he claimed to have sponsored the elections of President Muhammadu Buhari, Bola Tinubu has denied the report. The national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said he did not spend N35 billion on the in 2015 and 2019 as being claimed. According to a report, Tinubu was reported to have said this while having a discussion with Bisi Akande, former interim chairman of the APC.

He was also reported to have accused the president of betraying him, The Cable reports. However, Tinubu in a statement by his spokesman, Tunde Rahman, Tinubu dismissed these claims.