Sunday 19 April 2015

Pres. Jonathan demanded N2trillion election funds to be refunded?

According to an exclusive Punch report, he did. Below is what
they are reporting...
Following the defeat suffered by President Jonathan
and his party, the PDP during the March 28 and April
11 elections, the President has asked the party and
government officials who handled campaign funds to
refund monies not spent, or those not judiciously
expended, Sunday Punch can authoritatively report.
Jonathan, credible sources said, has also set up a
committee of five to get those with the funds to return
them.
Sources within the party and government told our
correspondents that President Jonathan was disturbed
that despite giving campaign coordinators, ministers,
special advisers, close aides and friends, support
groups and traditional rulers over N2trn in cash, most
of them could not deliver their polling booths and local
governments.
The President was said to have been further irked by
the results of an investigation he ordered. The probe
showed that some coordinators used campaign funds
to buy very expensive properties, especially in Abuja,
and luxury cars. Some of the funds have also been
traced to the bank accounts of senior party and
government officials who were charged with the
disbursement of funds to voters and groups.
A reliable source within the Presidency said,
“Some ministers did not get less than N20bn each.
None of them can deny it because this fact isn’t
hidden within government circles. The only problem
with such monies is that there is no receipt to show
that they collected money. The sad part is that almost
all of them performed woefully. Even in the states
where the PDP won, some ministers could not deliver
100,000 votes. They could not mobilise their people to
come out. The President is not happy. They all went
property and car shopping. This was the most
expensive election in the history of this country, yet
there was no result.
“The sad part was that even after the President lost on
March 28, more money was given to all of them to
make up for the dismal outing by winning their states
during the April 11 elections. But that turned out to be
a bad decision because apart from losing the
governorship election, we didn’t perform well at the
National Assembly and House of Representatives polls.
“They must give an account of the money since they
didn’t use it for the election. The President is not
particular about the funds spent on genuine campaign
needs like the hiring of jets, advertisements and the
rest that also cost billions of naira. His focus is on the
individuals that collected billions to deliver their states
but couldn’t even win their polling booths.”

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