Prof. Jerry Gana Can’t Have N5 Billion, By Yusuf Ozi-Usman

Yesterday, Saturday December 20, President Goodluck Jonathan launched an appeal fund to finance his campaign for the 2015 Presidential election, which he hopes to contest as candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The President is going for a second term in office.
One of the outstanding highlights of the fund raising was the contribution to the fund by Professor Jerry Gana, of the sum of five billion naira.
Professor Gana, who headed the committee that organised the fund raising was said to have donated the five billion naira on behalf of his friends.
The first thing that came to my mind immediately after the announcement was and still is: where would Professor Gana get five billion naira to give to a single project?
Of course, every Nigerian who is following the political trend in the country would know that no single person in the Gana’s calibre can possibly be in possession of such amount of money. I am not aware that Gana has any business outfit or industrial organisation. Even those who are doing fairly well as private practitioners in the economy don’t have enough capacity, in the gloomy economic situation in the country now, to give out such mouth watering amount to the Presidency that can source for its campaign fund from various sources without holding any dinner.
It is sad that our politicians have failed to realise that the days of voodoo politics, where they bamboozled ordinary Nigerians with all sorts of impossible postulations are gone forever. This is too archaic that even a kindergarten toddler would laugh at it.
Professor Gana and or the Presidency should stop playing on the intelligence of Nigerians, the same way it was done a couple of months ago when the Presidency announced that even road side mechanics, youths, Fulani people and several other groups contributed millions and billions of naira to Jonathan declaration for Presidency.
It must be repeated with vehemence that Professor Jerry Gana and his un-named friends don’t have five billion naira to give for Jonathan’s campaign fund.

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