Director-general of president Muhammadu Buhari’s reelection campaign, Festus Keyamo(SAN) has reacted to claims by some groups that it would be against the law for Buhari to accept the N45m nomination form gift by a support group.
According to Keyamo, some “mischievous persons are reading S. 91(9) of the Electoral Act upside down.” Keyamo says it was a wrong assertion as ‘the section limits CASH (not material) donations in respect of CANDIDATES to N1m.’
The human rights lawyer stated also that ”PMB is not a CANDIDATE. He’s an aspiring ASPIRANT. He becomes an ASPIRANT only when he submits his Forms to his Party.”
Writing via twitter on Friday, Keyamo said that many people opposing Buhari, do it not for the good of the masses but for their personal selfish interests.
He wrote :
The situation we have in Nig is that the REAL oppressors of the masses are struggling to pose as their saviours whilst they seek to paint the REAL saviours as the oppressors. They’re using fake news, propaganda, etc, to paint this picture. All they want is to sneak back to power
— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) September 7, 2018
If the masses have d opportunity to hear in private why some power elite oppose PMB, they would be shocked to their marrows that it has nothing to do with good governance. It’s all about ‘how has this govt benefitted me?!’ Some of us they speak with in private just can’t buy that
— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) September 7, 2018
Some mischievous persons are reading S. 91(9) of the Electoral Act upside down. The section limits CASH (not material) donations in respect of CANDIDATES to N1m. PMB is not a CANDIDATE. He’s an aspiring ASPIRANT. He becomes an ASPIRANT only when he submits his Forms to his Party