3 quick thoughts on Buhari’s ‘loan’
Originally posted on The Kaleidoscope: This from the Vanguard is generating quite a bit of discussion: Buhari meanwhile, yesterday procured the party’s N27.5 million expression of interest and nomination forms at the national secretariat. Lamenting that the costs of the forms were high, he said that it took the understanding of his bankers in Kaduna…
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Point 1. I’d like a reference to where the PDP nomination form costs N10million. No, I’m not trying to cause trouble. I read here http://www.thenewswriterng.com/?p=13328 that the PDP’s Rivers State gubernatorial nomination form is about N10million. Forms have varying prices across states. This I think is good as it considers disparity in state income.
Point 3: The APC was a merger of at least two parties, ACN & CPC. A merger means that assets of individual entities should belong to the new party as agreed upon. This invalidates the new status of the APC. The only excuse one would give is that the former parties were run as sole enterprises by their administrators. If that is the case, then there is dishonesty on the part of the constituent parties and new APC leadership.
Again, these are thoughts open to discourse.
This from the Vanguard is generating quite a bit of discussion:
Buhari meanwhile, yesterday procured the party’s N27.5 million expression of interest and nomination forms at the national secretariat.
Lamenting that the costs of the forms were high, he said that it took the understanding of his bankers in Kaduna and Abuja to raise the money.
“It’s a pity I couldn’t influence this amount to be put down as in the case of ladies and the disabled that intend to participate. I always looked left and right in our meetings but I could not read sympathy, so I kept my trap.
“But I felt heavily sorry for myself because I don’t want to go and ask somebody to pay for my nomination forms, because I always try to pay myself, at least for the nomination.
“N27 million is a big sum, thankfully I have personal relationship with the manager of…
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