₦airaland Forum

AS EACH STATE RECEIVED N500 MILLION

LEADERSHIP Sunday gathered that the[b] sum of N500million was given as campaign fund to each state[/b] but those who the funds were entrusted to, rather than use the money for the purpose it was meant, held on to it. The money was disbursed through PDP-led state governors and cabinet ministers or political appointees in opposition-led states.

In Ondo State for instance, LEADERSHIP gathered that the money was disbursed through one of the principal presidency officials from the state but as at night fall on the election eve, the official was yet to deliver the money to the state governor for the campaigns. The leadership of the PDP in the state, it was learnt, resorted to calling managers of banks in the state late in the night on the eve of the presidential election to ask for funds but could only get very little, by which time there wasn’t enough time to reach out to a large number of electorate in the state.

A similar scenario reportedly played out in Oyo State where a minister from the state who was entrusted with the campaign funds allegedly held onto the money. In Kogi State where the PDP also lost out in the presidential election, LEADERSHIP sources said money for the election was also diverted to other uses such as payment of debts, hence the abysmal result the party got in the state.

The abysmal performance of the party in Benue, Bauchi and Kano states, where the PDP has two governors, a Senate president, national chairman of the party and three cabinet ministers, Gabriel Suswam, Isa Yuguda, David Mark, Adamu Muazu, Bala Mohammed, Ibrahim Shekarau and Aminu Wali, respectively, but could not garner votes for the president, was also said to have drawn his ire.

Our source said the president despite having received security reports that a high ranking official of the party was allegedly covertly working for the opposition was particularly annoyed that he had trusted the said official and waved the reports.

Sources in Kaduna State where the vice president, Namadi Sambo hails from and where there is a PDP government in charge, also informed LEADERSHIP Sunday that in one of the local governments in Southern Kaduna, only N100,000 was allotted to two polling units in one of the wards with a voting population of over 1,000 people in sharp contrast with the situation in some local governments in Edo State, where eligible voters with Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) were given N2000 each to vote for the party, hence the success recorded.

Recall that few days before the election, LEADERSHIP Sunday’s sister publication, LEADERSHIP, had exclusively reported that allegations of embezzlement and diversion of campaign funds were rife in the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO).

According to the report, coordinators of some of President Jonathan’s campaign groups as well as state and zonal coordinators were taking steps to ensure that they did not lose out completely, in the event that he does not win. LEADERSHIP’s investigations in Abuja revealed that the coordinators, rather than use the money for campaigns, had been scouting the Abuja property market with dollars, acquiring choice property. The campaigners, it was gathered, rather than use the money for the purpose it is meant, have resorted to investing the money in property, so that in the event that their candidate does not emerge, they would have something to fall back on.

Real estate agents privy to the development told LEADERSHIP Sunday that since the campaigns began and particularly after the postponement of the elections, there had been an upswing in the number of persons looking to buy property and most of them who usually pay in dollars had been linked to the campaign.

source: http://leadership.ng/news/423130/how-ministers-governors-sabotaged-jonathan

sorry sir

The People's HERO!

Jonathan should be investigated! Where did he get N18 B be distributed to the states alone? He claims he earns some millions per annum, where did he get so much money? It is Nigeria's money and must be refunded, otherwise all his I un-defendable material acquisitions since 2007 must be sold off to recoup the money and sent away to prison to pay the rest and the inconvenience caused to Nigerians!!

if this is true then GEJ must produce CBN account report before and after the election and if found culpable he must return back our stolen money!!!

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from what I can decipher from this leadership story... the money was to swing the mind of the electorates to vote for PDP on March 28 .....It does not include the dollar merry go lavish on Monarchs, Alfa, Pastors, Thugs etc before the presidential poll. I even heard that my people at kabala west in Kaduna were given N250each only out of the bountiful largess.

To even think that Okonjo Iweala confirm that Nigeria need to borrow $2billion. That Amount alone would have offset the backlog of unpaid salaries of so many state workers.

chaii... Chaii... This PDP member really Knack Mr President..... diaris God

They most be probe and punished

FTC Material...

That money can do something meaningful in 6geopolitical zones of Nigeria.
What ashame, it is bad to be clueless.

Spending such an outrageous amount to return to the cage

He claims to have been in a cage for 16years, yet spending this much to return to the cage.

I laugh in Kanuri

Bevista:
The People's HERO!

If he's a hero he wont have to bribe voters. He is just dumb and a mugulicious mugu.

Otouke straight!

And straight back to kirikiri No time

san316:
If he's a hero he wont have to bribe voters. He is just dumb and a mugulicious mugu.

That was sarcasm for people praising the grand fraudster.

“Why should he be beating a dead horse? If I were Buhari, I will not worry myself beating a dead man. We should move forward because expectations in the country are too high. Honestly, President Goodluck Jonathan is a friend and a good man. He is also a friend of the progressives but he allowed himself to be misled by bad advisers.” - Gov Kwankwaso of Kano State.

If Buhari doesn't recover the 30 Trillion Naira stolen in the past 6yrs...how do we hope to fight corruption and impunity as well as bring rapid development to the masses. PLS..GMB should probe them..he may not imprison them, but bring back our money..that is what we want...but if GMB is unjust enough to let them go...generations unborn will never Forgive him.

No wonder mama piss dey cru say she no wan give food to oga Jona for kirikiri.
Hmmmm. Is dis not enough to give him a bungalow in Maximum prison

Small time now one robot go come and say, "Gej my Hero Fayose my mentor"....if Gej is ur Hero, and Fayose ur mentor then be ready for an end like there own.