The All Progressives Congress
(APC) says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is having difficulties in raising
funds for the campaign of Atiku Abubakar, its presidential candidate.
In a statement on Tuesday, Yekini
Nabena, deputy national publicity secretary of the APC, said due to the
stringent measures put in place by the current administration, the PDP is in a
dilemma on how to source funds to run Atiku presidential campaign.
He said PDP’s hope of sourcing
campaign funds from public coffers has been dashed.
“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,” he
said.
“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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