The Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) has threatened to drag the presidential candidate of the party and a former minister, Oby Ezekwesili to court over campaign funding.
Few hours after she announced her withdrawal from the Presidential race in order to form a coalition with other political parties, the party says it will be supporting President Buhari’s re-election bid.
The chairman of the party who coupled as her running mate at that time said that Ezekwesili only tried to use the ACPN platform to negotiate to become a finance minister whenever a new government assumes office later in the year.
He also said to the newsmen earlier today that she never informed the party of her decision to withdraw from the presidential race. He said the party may take her to court as it is obvious to them that she was never serious with her campaign all along.
According to him,
“The reason for calling this press conference is to let the world know about the presidential aspiration of Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, which in actual fact, is not the truth, I have been put into confidence by one of her aides named Iyinoluwa Aboyeji that she only wanted to use the platform of the ACPN to negotiate to be Nigeria’s finance minister. This is why she does not deem it fit to inform the party whose mandate she is holding. If you observe, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, is the only presidential candidate who was so militant in her campaign without any tangible thing on ground to indicate any seriousness in the prosecution of her campaign. No campaign secretariat, billboard or great commitment on ground to indicate any seriousness. It is on this ground that the ACPN is withdrawing support for her presidential aspiration and endorsing the second term bid of President Muhammadu Buhari to take Nigeria to the next level. We may take her to court during her brief sojourn.”
He added that Ezekwesili didn’t have the money to purchase the presidential form and that she was given concession as a female aspirant.
“She only preempted the decision we would have reached today which was to withdraw her candidacy and give to somebody else. Our presidential nomination ticket is N10 million and expression of interest is N500, 000 but when she came she said she did not have money, that she only had N100, 000 and because we wanted to encourage women, we gave her our platform”, said Mr Galadima.
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