Northern Yam Farmers To Raise N5bn For Buhari’s Campaign

A group of yam farmers cutting across some
northern states in the country have pledged to
support the All Progressives Congress (APC)
presidential candidate, Gen. Mohammadu
Buhari’s campaign in the 2015 general elections
with N5 billion.

The group disclosed this in a statement made
available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in
Jos on Tuesday.

Rev. Jacob Musa, Public Relations Officer (PRO)
of the farmers under the name “Buhari-Osinbajo
Presidential Appeal Campaign Fund (BOPCAF),
said that farmers from 10 states of the
federation were planning the fund raiser.
Musa said members drawn from Taraba,
Nasarawa, Plateau, Adamawa, Benue, Kogi,
Kwara, Niger and Kaduna states as well as the
Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, would
feature at the occasion.

He said that Prof. Emmanuel Garba, who lost the
governorship primary of the APC in Plateau, was
a founding father of the group.
“We have contributed five million tubers of yam
to be donated in support of the funding of
Buhari’s presidential campaign.

“The five million tubers of yam will be retailed at
a special price of N1,000 each towards raising
the sum of N5 billion in support of the APC
candidate,’’ it said.

The statement said that the public presentation
of the five million tubers of yam would hold at
the Mararaban Demshin village yam market in
Qua’an Pan Local Government Area of Plateau
on Jan. 4, 2015.

It stated that the ceremony would also witness
traditional wrestling involving 500 traditional
wrestlers from the 19 northern states and the
FCT.

“The aim is to mobilise the wrestlers in the
campaign against poverty, crime, killings,
kidnappings, armed robbery, cattle rustling,
rape, cultism, election rigging, looting of public
fund, smuggling, terrorism and other social vices
now prevalent in the society,’’ it said.

The statement also said that the event would be
heralded by a world press conference in Jos,
sponsored by Imo Gov. Rochas Okorocha.
It added that the event would be attended by
Gov. Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers in his capacity as
the Director-General of the Buhari-Osinbajo
Campaign Organisation on Jan. 2, 2014.


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