Ahead of the 2015 Presidential polls, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday said it must not underestimate the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) General Muhammadu Buhari and other opponents.
This was disclosed in Abuja by a member of the PDP Board of Trustees, BOT, and former information minister, Jerry Gana, during the PDP Fund Raising Dinner organised for President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election.
Speaking at the dinner, Gana warned the PDP leadership against taking things for granted, stressing that the forthcoming general elections would be very competitive.
Similarly, Gana, who also chairs the fund raising committee, charged the party to use its campaign to show Nigerians what it had achieved for the country within the last 16 years.
He said: “Let me use this opportunity to say that the forthcoming general election is essentially going to be a two-party affair. It will be very competitive. I therefore appeal to the leadership of our great party that we must not take things for granted. We must campaign. We must not underestimate the opposition. We have to show people what we have done in the last 16 years. Having a very good candidate is very important and I can tell everyone that our presidential candidate is good”.
Likewise, the former Information Minister told the audience that the just concluded primary elections of the party had created a lot of problems for the party in most states.
He said the party had reached a critical stage where its leadership must desist from imposing unpopular candidates on Nigerians
Maku warned: “I must tell you that we have serious challenges and difficulties in a number of states arising from the primaries. And I want to appeal that our party’s leadership must not impose unpopular candidates on the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria”.
However, Maku, expressed optimism that the PDP would emerge victorious at the polls.
Meanwhile, the national chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Adamu Muazu identified that the party needed financial resources to prosecute the 2015 general elections.
Nigeria Newsroom gathered list of some of the donations received so far: ₦1bn from the chairman of the occasion, Tunde Ayeni; ₦2bn from his friends and associates; ₦5bn from the oil and gas; ₦1bn from the aviation and transport sector; ₦4bn from the real estate sector; ₦500m each from from the water resources and power sectors; and ₦350m from the construction industry.
According to the National Chairman, more donations have also come from PDP governors forum, ₦1.05bn, Shelter Development Ltd, ₦250m; Youth Ambassador, ₦10m; Food and Agric sector, ₦500m; Katsina Deputy Governor, ₦2m; and Labaran Maku ₦1m.
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