APC’s
Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, in a statement made
available to journalists in Abuja alleged that due to the stringent measures
put in place by the present administration, the PDP is in a dilemma on how to
source funds to run the Atiku Presidential Campaign.
Nabena
claimed that information available to him showed that the PDP’s hope of
sourcing campaign funds from public coffers has been dashed.
He
said, “The presidential candidate (Atiku) expects the party to provide funds
for his campaign. 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 open to 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.”
Nabena
advised the nation’s anti-corruption agencies to ensure that all sources of
campaign fund by the political parties are closely monitored.
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