Despite his seemingly austere disposition, a
presidential aspirant on the platform of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, Muhammadu
Buhari, on Tuesday, donated N1 million to the
delegates of the party from Imo State to vote
him during its December 10 national
convention.
Mr. Buhari, a former head of state, met with
the delegates at the Regent Hotels, Owerri,
during which he lobbied them to vote for him.
He also visited the Imo State House of
Assembly to lobby the APC members of the
legislature who are statutory delegates to the
convention.
The presidential hopeful was accompanied by
the Director General of his Campaign
Organisation, Audu Ogbeh; a former President
of Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Rotimi
Akeredolu; and a former member of the House
of Representatives, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba.
One of Mr. Buhari’s opponents and former
Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, had at the
weekend given N8.5 million to the Sokoto
State chapter of the APC.
Mr. Abubakar, who was on national wide
campaign, said N5 million was meant to
facilitate the party’s activities while N2.5
million was for the 50 delegates from the
state.
Other aspirants jostling for the opposition
party’s presidential ticket are Governor Rabi’u
Kwankwaso of Kano State and the founder of
the Leadership newspaper, Sam Nda-Isaiah.
Mr. Buhari had recently launched a crowd
sourcing campaign on the social media to
raise funds for the primaries.
He is already generating funds online and
offline to prosecute his presidential
aspiration.
The former head of state, who thrice
contested to be president, had in October
revealed how he took loan and borrowed from
several banks to procure the APC presidential
nomination and expression of interest form
which cost N27.5 million.
“It’s a pity I couldn’t influence this amount to
be put down as in the case of ladies and the
disabled that intend to participate. I always
looked left and right in our meetings but I
could not read sympathy, so I kept my trap,”
Mr. Buhari said.
“But I felt heavily sorry for myself because I
don’t want to go and ask somebody to pay for
my nomination forms because I always try to
pay for myself at least for the nomination.
“N27 million is a big sum, thankfully I have
personal relationship with the manager of my
bank in Kaduna and early this morning, I put
an early call (and) I told him that very soon
the forms are coming, so whether I am on red,
or green or even black please honour it,
otherwise I may lose the nomination.”
He also said the cost of the forms was fixed to
separate the men from the boys.
The former military leader said, “I don’t
expect you have N27 million under your bed.
But I expect that there are Nigerians who will
vouch for you any day and who are ready to
stand for you any day and that is the result
that we have obtained today.”


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