Following the defeat
suffered by President Goodluck Jonathan and his party, the Peoples Democratic
Party, during the March 28 and April 11 elections, the President has asked the
party and government officials who handled campaign funds to refund monies not
spent, or those not judiciously expended.
Jonathan, credible sources said, has also set
up a committee of five to get those with the funds to return them.
Sources within the
party and government told Punch’s correspondents that President Jonathan was
disturbed that despite giving campaign coordinators, ministers, special
advisers, close aides and friends, support groups and traditional rulers over
N2trn in cash, most of them could not deliver their polling booths and local
governments.
The President was said
to have been further irked by the results of an investigation he ordered. The
probe showed that some coordinators used campaign funds to buy very expensive
properties, especially in Abuja, and luxury cars. Some of the funds have also
been traced to the bank accounts of senior party and government officials who
were charged with the disbursement of funds to voters and groups.
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