2019: PDP broke, unable to fund Atiku’s campaign – APC
Secretary, Yekini Nabena, has alleged that the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, are at the
moment facing serious difficulties raising funds for the 2019
presidential election campaigns.
Nabena, in a statement he signed on Tuesday in Abuja, attributed the
difficulty in raising the fund to the stringent measures put in place
by the present administration.
He claimed that the opposition party was in a dilemma on how to source
funds to prosecute the Atiku Presidential Campaign.
According to him, available information from the PDP's recent strategy
meeting in Dubai, United Arab Emirate (UAE) confirmed major setback in
the hope of sourcing campaign funds from the public coffers.
"The Presidential Candidate expects the party to provide funds for his
campaign. But, this is the Buhari era, an era of strict accountability
and transparency in the use and application of public funds and not
the Jonathan era in 2015 when the national treasury was opened to the
PDP leaders to prosecute the Presidential campaign.
"The party leaders are therefore in serious difficulties and dilemma
on how to source funds to run the Atiku Presidential Campaign. Some
financiers of the party expect that the candidate, having bought the
ticket with millions of dollars should have the financial capacity to
run his campaign.
"With the candidate's expectation that it is the party that will fund
his campaign it is now clear that they are at a crossroads and the
chickens have come home to roost.
"The anti-corruption agencies should gird their loins and ensure that
all sources of campaign fund by the political parties are closely
monitored and recover the funds looted during the Jonathan era.
"Such recovered funds should be applied for the benefits of the poor
masses who were denied democracy benefits during the 16 years misrule
of the PDP.
"It is now clear to the members of the PDP who were deceived into
believing that their presidential candidate is a man of stupendous
wealth that it is all a mirage, a 419 packaging and that they entered
a 'one chance' bus.
"As we approach February 2019 general elections, the electorate are
becoming more conscious and aware of the deceitful nature of their
so-called leaders.
"Atiku is nationally known as a man of immense wealth. Apart from his
being a retired officer of the Customs & Excise not above the rank of
Deputy Director, and not known to have been an exceptionally
successful businessman, his claims to stupendous wealth and source are
questionable and lack credibility.
"During the "dollar rain" at the Port Harcourt party Convention, he
outspent all the other aspirants and easily clinched the party's
presidential ticket.
"Having emerged without the support of the "Governor General" of the
party, who had earlier produced the party's National Chairman and
ordered the party to hold the convention in Port Harcourt, Alhaji
Atiku is now on 'his own' in bankrolling his campaign.
"The electorate has a better alternative to stick to the clean, honest
and transparent leadership of Muhammadu Buhari who has done so much to
ensure better future for them after the 16 years misrule of the PDP,"
the statement read.
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