The Kaduna State Government has disowned a letter circulating on social media which claimed that Governor Uba Sani approved and released ₦2.3 trillion for the flag-off of the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign in the state. The Commissioner for Information and Culture, Malam Ahmed Maiyaki, described the document as a forgery in a statement issued in Kaduna on Saturday. The denial came on the same day the ruling party was scheduled to open its 2027 presidential campaign with a rally in the state.
According to Maiyaki, the letter was dated October 18, 2026, and titled “Notification for Preparations for the Grand Rally Flag Off”. It was purportedly addressed to Senator Abdulazeez Yari, named in the document as Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council. “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,” the commissioner said.
Maiyaki pointed to errors in the document, including the misspelling of the governor’s surname as “Uba Sai” and what he described as the unauthorised reproduction of his signature. He said the government had begun efforts to trace the origin of the letter. He also asked security and investigative agencies to examine it and ensure that anyone found culpable faced legal action.
The state’s own budget figures sit at the centre of the government’s rebuttal. Governor Sani signed the ₦985.9 billion 2026 Appropriation Bill into law on December 22, 2025. Of that amount, ₦698.9 billion, or 70.9 per cent, was set aside for capital projects, while recurrent spending stood at ₦287 billion. Education took the largest share at 25 per cent.
Set against those numbers, the sum named in the disputed letter is about 2.3 times the state’s entire budget for the year. It is eight times the state’s recurrent spending and more than three times its capital vote. At the budget signing, the governor said the 2026 plan would take on no new loans and that ₦114.9 billion had already gone into debt servicing.
The figure also falls far outside the legal limits on campaign spending. Under the Electoral Act 2026, a presidential candidate may spend no more than ₦10 billion on an election campaign, double the ₦5 billion allowed under the repealed 2022 Act. The amount in the letter is 230 times that ceiling. Governorship candidates are capped at ₦3 billion.
Maiyaki said the letter was part of coordinated misinformation aimed at discrediting the governor and his administration ahead of the 2027 general elections. He warned that fabricating official correspondence and spreading false financial claims could amount to criminal offences. “Political competition must be conducted within the bounds of truth, decency and the law,” he said, urging critics to rely on credible evidence when questioning government spending.
The commissioner said that since Sani assumed office on May 29, 2023, the administration had prioritised fiscal discipline, transparency, accountability and prudent management of public resources. He listed security, infrastructure, education, healthcare, agriculture and social protection among its main areas of investment. He also urged media organisations and members of the public to verify documents before circulating or publishing allegations about public expenditure.
The government did not name any suspect in its statement or say which agency had been asked to investigate. How the letter was produced and who first circulated it remain unknown. Maiyaki said the administration would stay focused on prudent financial management and would not be distracted by what he called deliberate misinformation.