APC Accuses Jonathan, PDP of Spending N1 Trillion on Hate Campaigns
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of spending N1 trillion on campaigns aimed at discrediting Major General Muhammadu Buhari.
Gen. Buhari is the candidate of the APC, while Jonathan is the flagbearer of the PDP in the coming presidential elections, The opposition party, at a press conference addressed by the director of its presidential campaign, Mallam Garba Shehu, said that the alleged sum could have been spent to better the lot of Nigerians.
“We will like to bring to your attention and that of Nigerians how the President Goodluck Jonathan led Peoples Democratic Party government is wasting one trillion Naira that belongs to Nigerian people in his self-serving and desperate bid for a re-election at all cost in the midst of grinding poverty his party and government has subjected Nigerians to in the last 16 years,” Shehu stated.
He continued: “It is unconscionable and height of betrayal of public trust that a government and a President who should preside over the husbandry and judicious use of our national patrimony is superintending over its massive squander in a futile attempt to stop the idea of change.”
Noting that the PDP had “laboriously and wantonly” spent huge sums on print, broadcast and social media campaigns against Buhari, the APC stated: “An average cost of a wrap-around in Tier 1 and Tier 2 newspapers in Nigeria is between N15 million to N20 million and the Jonathan campaign buys average of five wrap around and front pages in a day in the last three months, coupled with the hundreds of billions that have been spent on negative TV exposures on AIT, NTA and other television and radio stations across the country.”
It alleged that the President had been criss-crossing the country, “giving an average of N50 million each to traditional rulers, most especially in the South West and the Northern parts of Nigeria.”
It alleged that the President’s campaign money is currently being shipped to the North, adding:
“Letters in English and Hausa backed by millions in cash are being dispatched to willing rulers in the region. Religious leaders, trade unions, youths organisations, professional bodies, entertainers are not ruled out of the money sharing jamboree of President Jonathan.”
