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<\/p>\nNabena, in a statement he signed on Tuesday in Abuja, attributed the difficulty in raising the fund to the stringent measures put in place by the present administration.<\/p>\n
He claimed that the opposition party was in a dilemma on how to source funds to prosecute the Atiku Presidential Campaign.<\/p>\n
According to him, available information from the PDP\u2019s recent strategy meeting in Dubai, United Arab Emirate (UAE) confirmed major setback in the hope of sourcing campaign funds from the public coffers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Presidential Candidate expects the party to provide funds for his campaign. But, 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 opened to the PDP leaders to prosecute the Presidential campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the candidate\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe anti-corruption agencies should gird their loins and ensure that all sources of campaign fund by the political parties are closely monitored and recover the funds looted during the Jonathan era.<\/p>\n
\u201cSuch recovered funds should be applied for the benefits of the poor masses who were denied democracy benefits during the 16 years misrule of the PDP.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is now clear to the members of the PDP who were deceived into believing that their presidential candidate is a man of stupendous wealth that it is all a mirage, a 419 packaging and that they entered a \u2018one chance\u2019 bus.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we approach February 2019 general elections, the electorate are becoming more conscious and aware of the deceitful nature of their so-called leaders.<\/p>\n
\u201cAtiku is nationally known as a man of immense wealth. Apart from his being a retired officer of the Customs & Excise not above the rank of Deputy Director, and not known to have been an exceptionally successful businessman, his claims to stupendous wealth and source are questionable and lack credibility.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring the \u201cdollar rain\u201d at the Port Harcourt party Convention, he outspent all the other aspirants and easily clinched the party\u2019s presidential ticket.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving emerged without the support of the \u201cGovernor General\u201d of the party, who had earlier produced the party\u2019s National Chairman and ordered the party to hold the convention in Port Harcourt, Alhaji Atiku is now on \u2018his own\u2019 in bankrolling his campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe electorate has a better alternative to stick to the clean, honest and transparent leadership of Muhammadu Buhari who has done so much to ensure better future for them after the 16 years misrule of the PDP,\u201d the statement read.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, has alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, are at the moment facing serious difficulties raising funds for the 2019 presidential election campaigns. Nabena, in a statement he signed on Tuesday in Abuja, attributed the difficulty in raising […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[29,1048,58],"class_list":["post-61142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-atiku-abubakar","tag-pdp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}