Former Director General of the Goodluck Jonathan 2015 re-election campaign bid, Femi Olukayode has said that the President, Muhammad Buhari, in order to prosecute his 2015 campaign, received over N50 billion in cash financing from former governors, some of whom are now sitting cabinet members.
Femi Olukayode made the allegation in an emailed essay sent to leading publications earlier today entitled ‘John Paden’s book on President Muhammadu Buhari and his dirty little lies’. In the essay he slammed the book which is entitled, “Muhammadu Buhari: The Challenge of Leadership in Nigeria”, as nothing more than “a compilation of disjointed verbiage fit only for the dustbin” and “an extraordinary and fantastic fairy-tale built on a shady foundation of pseudo-intellectual clap-trap and garbage.”
In a section of his essay, Olukayode stated that there is video evidence of some of the billions in cash funds handed over to President Muhammad Buhari’s campaign in 2015.
Olukayode said:
Permit me to end this contribution by making a suggestion to Paden. Since he wrote about Jonathan’s campaign funds and alleged all manner of corruption concerning their source and application, in his next book on President Buhari I would suggest that he sheds more light on how his subject’s own 2015 presidential campaign funds were sourced.
For a start he should tell us who provided the 10 million USD that was paid as consultancy fees to the company of Mr. David Axelrod, President Barack Obama’s erstwhile campaign manager.
He should also tell us the source of funds and how Buhari and his team managed the 19 billion naira that was given to him in cash by the then sitting Governor of the leading and largest state in the south west and the 24.6 billion naira that was given to him in cash and in one day (which was recorded on video before being handed over) by another leading south western politician.
In addition to that he should tell us precisely how much the then Governors of Rivers and Kano states and the present Governors of Ogun and Kwara states amongst many others contributed to Buhari’s campaign and where they got the money from.
Since everyone is claiming to be holy and righteous in this matter let us all get there and publicly exchange notes. After all, the Nigerian public and indeed the entire world, has a right to know.
If Paden fails to ask those questions and declines to provide the answers then he, his accursed books and his questionable and dubious “white-washing” mission of President Muhammadu Buhari shall undoubtedly remain damned forever.
Whether he does so or not other governments that will come to power in the future in this country will not only get the necessary answers but they will also do the appropriate thing and bring them to justice. It is only a matter of time.