A group of yam farmers cutting across some northern states of the country have pledged to support the campaign of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, General Mohammadu Buhari, for the 2015 general elections with N5 billion.
The group disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Jos, Plateau State on Tuesday.
Rev. Jacob Musa, the Public Relations Officer of the farmers under the name: “Buhari-Osibajo Presidential Appeal Campaign Fund,” said 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, Abuja would feature at the occasion.
He said that Prof. Emmanuel Garba, who lost the governorship primaries of the APC in Plateau State, was a founding father of the group.
Musa said: “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.”
The statement said 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 State on January 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 statement added: “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.”
The statement also said that the event would be heralded by a world press conference in Jos, sponsored by Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State.
It added that the event would be attended by Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State in his capacity as the Director-General of the Buhari-Osibajo Campaign Organisation.
Source: www.thecallng.com
