The Allied Congress Party of Nigeria has
asked its former presidential candidate, Oby Ezekwesili, to return all the
money generated during her short stay in the party or be dragged to court.
Ezekwesili withrew from the presidential race on January 24th and according to
the party, she hasn't refunded the money generated for her campaign.
The National Chairman of the party, Ganiyu Galadima, made this
known at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday February 7th. The party
chairman said that from all indications, Ezekwesili did not have capacity to
contest a presidential election.
“We want to distinguish all the
contents of the accounts and see the accounts because at the end of the day, it
is not the presidential candidate that the Independent National Electoral
Commission will hold responsible, but the party, and whatever any candidate
generated for his or her campaign belongs to the party. We are expecting
that she will respond at the appropriate time but if she doesn’t, we may be bound
to go to court.” he said
Additional, Galadinma said:
“For somebody who wants to contest for
the presidency, all you could generate for period of three months was just N43m and she spent everything. She did not
disclose the sources of the fund and how much she generated.
Look at Omoyele Sowore, he openly exposed on a national TV
recently that his campaign and the party had been able to generate N99m. In
addition, he also told the world how the money could be traced. So why is
there no transparency in Madam Ezekwesili’s project? That is the bone of argument. We
are expecting that she will respond at the appropriate time but if she doesn’t,
we may be compelled to go to court to seek for order of Mandamus'.
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