http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/arab-sheiks-boost-buharis-campaign-with-700-million/

Arab Sheiks Boost Buhari’s Campaign With $700 Million
With less than one week to the Presidential Elections, the Buhari Campaign

Organization’s international fund raising drive, which was consolidated
during its candidate’s recent London trip, has reportedly yielded its
first bumper harvest from a shadowy group of Arab sheikhs.

The donors, led by former Saudi Arabia oil minister-turned top Middle East
politician Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, is spurred by renewed Arab interests
in regaining leverage over OPEC and the strategic prospects of a Muslim
president of Nigeria, pointblanknews.com investigations reveal.

Recall that soon after the Chatam House event in London, Buhari went
underground and was not seen in public for about two weeks. Sources said
in between heeding his Doctors advise to take some rest; the APC
Presidential candidate spent sometimes meeting with old Arab friends and
potential donors to his campaign.

Sheik Yamani was Saudi Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources from 1962 to
1986 and OPEC minister for 25 years with a career highlight of
spearheading the 1973 oil embargo that saw OPEC quadrupling the price of
crude oil in the most daring Arab challenge of Euro-American dominance and
control of the international oil market.

Initial figures mentioned range between $500 to $700 million, according to
Western intelligence sources, the bulk of which has already been moved to
Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire preparatory to siphoning it to agents of the Buhari
Campaign Organization said to have been “personally nominated” by General
Buhari in London for a last-minute dollar-attack to secure an edge in the
March 28 elections.

Pointblanknews.com gathered that indications of an imminent Arab-sourced
lifeline for the Buhari Campaign Organization first emerged in the last
days of General Buhari’s controversial London trip when he went off the
radar but discreetly hobnobbed with a few mainly Arab visitors. These were
later identified as emissaries of Sheikh Yamani working with his
London-based oil and gas consultancy, The Centre for Global Energy
Studies, that has been a cover for Yamani’s “diplomatic operations”.

Nigerian sources close to the Buhari Campaign Organization confirmed
“recent high expectations of foreign funding” within the caucus but also
admitted a “dilemma” over the implications of accepting financial
assistance from a distinctly Islamic source against a background of
“unresolved political challenges” arising from the widespread perception
of General Buhari as a Muslim fundamentalist which has been a major thrust
of campaigns against his candidature.

However, the sources added that the “hawks” in the Buhari campaign caucus
pushed for accessing the Arab support in a bid to bolster the financial
clout of the campaign organization to overcome the “lack lustre” backing
of the APC platform it had to merge into to acquire “geographical spread”.
This concern also explains why the contacts and negotiations for the Arab
support were exclusively managed by the closest aides of General Buhari
“literally behind the backs of the APC leadership”, the source confided.

General Buhari’s links with Sheikh Yamani stemmed from his days as a
colonel and Petroleum Minister under the military government of General
Obasanjo during which he represented Nigeria at OPEC where Yamani was
calling the shots.

Sheikh Yamani’s connections to the Islamic fundamentalist activism
surfaced when he spearheaded the 1973 OPEC oil embargo targeting Western
control of the international oil market but was also highlighted in the
events surrounding the 2002 discovery of a document that referred to the
“Golden Chain” – an elite club of twenty Saudi billionaires whom Osama bin
Laden was said to have identified as his top financiers in launching the
Al Qaeda terrorist organization.

Soon after the elections were postponed, APC allegedly ran out of funds.
Its several advertisement disappeared from the media. The party also
stopped all campaign activities.

Sources confirmed that soon as words came in that the Arab funding was
ready, the APC’s media machineries were asked to preempt it in the media
by alleging that the peoples Democratic Party, PDP, plans to accuse the
opposition party of receiving Dollars from the Arab.

Terrorism

datguru:
Terrorism

what do you mean by that?

ISIL now funding apc !

There are some story a daft human being will not even believe,,,,,,,,,,,700 million dollars to campaign in Nigeria alone...Is he campaigning to all other continent as well.......Smh for sum pple

Only $700 million? I thought it would be $20 billion
Mtscheeeeew! Next pls

OREMUSSANCTUS:
ISIL now funding apc !

How did you know

Hmmmm so it is true.....

If by chance Buhari wins this election, extremely hard times lies ahead for this country.

Definitely, the creeks will go haywire again, Buhari will send the troops to the creeks and together they will set the oil facilities ablaze.

OBJ's use of JTF force could not help as no Oil producing company will risk producing crude and killing staff in a volatile region.

GEJ under Yaradua had to get down to the creeks to to talk to these boys and effect the amnesty program because they found him as a representation in government.

If after GEJ's achievements in almost all sectors, roads, bridges, railways, agriculture, automobile, alamajiri schools, new universities, fertilizer and ghost worker scam elimination, freedom of press, FOI, free and fair elections, power sector. .........etc, he is still booted out. It will be impossible to convince a ND minority albeit a militant that their own was not persecuted out of office. And that will be the theme of the new struggle. The long term solution to this mess is implementing the Confab report and enthroning true federalism.

While these persists, the oil producing companies will simply withdraw their personnel from the volatile region and all foreign investments will seize in all sectors.

And even if the troops kill 90% of the militants, it will take just one militant, a dynamite and just one location along the multi- kilometre trunklines to continue to wreck havoc.

Fast forward to 2019, if we remain one country and without a civil war,, we will be an economic wreck with no allocations and salaries, no capital projects, no hope with dollar exchanging for 400 naira and we are worse off than we were in 2015.

Cos the truth is that without crude proceeds for now, Nigeria is finished.

And then, we'll be screaming another 'Change' because we would have learnt a bitter lesson in the hands of the Fulanis, Tinubu and Saraki.And then we will ask.... Why were we this silly?

And before you quote me, make sure you outline in clear terms how you or Buhari will avert this obvious calamity staring us in the face


Only last week, they creek boys seem to have resumed activities by kidnapping at Yoho facility operated by Exxonmobil and have shut in 80KBD already. Are we ready for this for the next 4 years?

The entire world stands to benefit from a crisis in the Niger delta. Its not a coincidence that USA who abandoned us at the height of bokoharam is busy shouting for change in govt . Crises in the ND will reduce supply of crude to the Oil market and that would drive up the price of crude for producing countries.... But at Nigeria's expense.

Nigerians.... Be Warned!!!

Will our women be forced to dress like angry masquereds when sheik buhari wins with talibans cash?

Buhari will really be a disaster to Nigeria if he wins. Bokoharam will be a small thing then. But God forbid.

$1bn-$700m=$300m.
Where is d remaining $19.3bn




Where is our $20bn