hehehe..2015 sha...The Atiku Campaign Organization, ACO, has boasted of securing at least 60 percent of All Progressives Congress, APC, delegates’ support across the country, exuding absolute confidence that it can achieve an outright win if the elections were to hold today.
The organization’s spokesman, Garba Shehu, announced this in an interview on Sunday where he linked this optimism to the “relentless hard work” which has become the norm of the ACO.
Hear him, “The Vice President is not resting. In the last couple of weeks, there is no day he does not leave his family and home to the states in the hunt for delegates. On some days, he covers up to three states.”
He dismissed insinuations in sections of the media that it was wrong for his boss, Atiku, to be making monetary donations to “destitute” branches of the party in states where they do not control the state government.
“People who say individuals cannot make donations for the upkeep of their party don’t know what politics is all about. If we don’t develop our party by ourselves, who is going to do that for us? Are we to wait for the government to grow our party? It is laughable of anyone to say that our laws don’t permit donations for the upkeep of our parties. How else can they survive?” Garba queried.
According to him, the said donation has been made to all state secretariats in non-APC-controlled states, adding that these chapters of the party tend to be starved of running funds, and since joining the party, Atiku has been making such donations to them.
Going down memory lane, he pointed out that Atiku has constantly funded party development like he did with Shehu Yar’Adua Group, SDP, PDP and now the APC, stressing that the former Vice President paid up the founding costs of PDP, including purchase of secretariat and running costs.
Garba asserted that the Atiku Centre will continue supporting democratic development in Nigeria and Africa long after Atiku has retired from active politics, at it is what he loves doing.
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