President Goodluck Jonathan has asked the party and government officials, who handled campaign funds, to refund unspent monies, or those not judiciously expended. This colossal sum makes one shudder. How can a political use N 2 trillion for campaign? What has the PDP made out of Nigeria?
President Jonathan has also set up a committee of five to get those with the funds to return them.
A close source to the President 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 mobilize their people to come out.
“The President is not happy. They all went on 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 in the other elections.
“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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