Nigeria, Oct. 27 -- The Makinde-Daura Presidential Campaign Organisation (MDPCO) has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate a claim that some ministers paid billions of naira to secure appointments and later sought to recover the money while in office.

The organisation, which is championing Oyo State Governor Oluseyi Makinde's campaign for the presidency on the platform of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), made the demand in a statement issued on Tuesday and signed by its Director of Strategic Communications, Richard Nnanna Ihediwa.

Its demand follows remarks by Alwan Hassan, a spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, who alleged during an interview on Ari...