The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar has described President Bola Tinubu’s plan to hand out N8,000 to 12 million households for six months as a brazen attempt to divert public funds. He asserted that Tinubu’s plan to spend $800 million on palliatives under an opaque arrangement is reminiscent of former President Muhammadu Buhari’s conditional cash transfer and COVID-19 intervention initiative which saw politicians keeping food items and provisions in their homes while the poor went hungry.