Barely a week
after some Nigerians and groups jostled to obtain the Presidential
Nomination form and expression of Interest form for President Buhari, which NCAN won the race eventually by outsmarting many Nigerians and groups to get.
Now as
President Buhari prepares for party primaries, many Nigerians and groups
have indicated interests and aligned to fund President Muhammadu Buhari’s primaries with a crowd fundraising target of one billion naira.
The crowd fundraising target of One Billion Naira is tagged “Nigerians Fund PMB 2019 Primaries”
and is to be coordinated by Buhari 2019 Door to Door Ambassadors.
According to Chris Kohol, the Director General of the coordinating
organization, the crowd funding campaign is initiated by good &
patriotic Nigerians to appreciate President Muhammadu Buhari’s personality and sterling leadership achievements.
Buhari 2019 Door-To-Door Ambassadors is a voluntary socio-political organization birthed chiefly to promote and propagate President Muhammadu Buhari’s
sterling administrative achievements through door-to-door outreach,
campaigns and other innovative and strategic means towards ensuring
victory for President Muhammadu Buhari
in the 2019 general elections. The organization currently has over 4
Million PVC carrying memberships across the country just within
5 months of it establishment & target 37 Million members across 36
States and FCT as the organization embark on full membership
mobilization early next month.
According to an
official statement released by the coordinating organization, the crowd
fundraising targets One Billion Naira for President Muhammadu Buhari’s
primaries and will start from Monday 10th September, 2018, by 10am and
end on Monday 17th September, 2018, by 7:00pm.
Channels of the crowd
funding includes online payment, bank transfers/deposits and short code
SMS.
The Director General of Buhari 2019 Door to Door Ambassadors, Chris
Kohol, disclosed that the crowd fundraising exercise will be highly
transparent as Economic & Financial Crime Commission (EFFC), the
Department of State Services (DSS), the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN),
the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC), Buhari Presidential
Campaign Organization 2019 and Buhari Support Organizations (BSO) have
been notified of the crowd funding exercise and have been invited to
monitor and audit the One Billion Naira crowd funding project for President Muhammadu Buhari, making it highly transparent and the first of its kind in Nigeria.
"President Muhammadu Buhari as a man of integrity and honour has said severally and demonstrated many times that he will not touch any Kobo of the public funds unlike some past leaders to facilitate his reelection bid, hence Nigerians are keen to crowd fund One Billion Naira for his Presidential primaries to enable him apply the funds to campaign transportation/logistics, campaign materials, non-volunteers salaries, media, advertisement and other key expenses during the Presidential primaries and convention" Chris Kohol said.
He further
stated that the planned gesture for President Buhari is as a result of
his good sterling leadership achievements evident in the areas of
security, agriculture, economy, anti-corruption war, massive
infrastructural development among others.
He hinted that
the donated funds will be presented to President Buhari on 18th
September, 2018, by about 37 delegate donors representing the huge
numbers of donors and each state of the federation.
It could be
recalled that in 2008 President Barack Obama raised about $778,642,962
for his Presidential campaign and in 2012 again he raised over one
billion US dollars for his reelection campaign. The coordinating group
said that they hope to see how President Buhari matches President Obama’s record.
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