Despite the suffering of civil servant who have not been paid their salaries, the 21 governors of the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Saturday, December 20, 2014, donated N1.05
billion to the party ahead of the 2015 elections.
The donation was said to
be part of the N21.2 billion which was raised by the party members at the fund
raising dinner held in Abuja.
According to Punch
Newspapers, Bauchi State governor, Isa Yuguda has stated that each governor
donated 50 million each to support the party towards the 2015 general
elections.
Other
donors at the dinner include the chairman of Skye Bank, Tunde Ayeni, who had been
reported as leading a consortium to purchase Nigeria Telecommunication, NITEL and
its mobile subsidiary, MTEL. Mr. Ayeni, who was chairman of the occasion,
donated N2 billion.
He announced that he was donating N1 billion on
behalf of himself and his partner and another billion on behalf of his friends.
Also at the event, a
former Information Minister, Jerry Gana, announced a donation of N5 billion on
behalf of his friends and associates in the power sector.
Punch Newspapers listed
other players in the Oil and Gas sector – N5 billion; players in Real Estate
and Building – N4 billion; Transport and Aviation – N 1billion; Food and
Agriculture – N500 million; Power – N500 million; Construction – N310 million;
Road Construction – N250 million; National Automative Association – N450
million; Shelter Development Limited – N250 million; and SIFAX group – N100
million.
However, the chief fund
raiser, Aliko Dangote, did not make any donation as his representative at the
event, Joseph Makoju, announced he had no mandate to make one. He said Mr.
Dangote would contact the PDP leadership about his donation once he arrives in
the country.
At the event, the PDP
National Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu, announced that the money would be used to
complete the party’s headquarters in Abuja and also run its affairs.
Mr. Mu’azu and President
Goodluck Jonathan appealed to members who lost various primaries not to leave
the PDP but work with the winners for the 2015 elections.
“If out of anger or
frustration, you leave the party because you didn’t get what you wanted, then
you are not contributing to the growth of democracy,” Mr. Jonathan said.
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