A group of yam farmers cutting across some
northern states in the country have pledged
to support the All Progressives Congress
(APC) presidential candidate, General
Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign in the 2015
general election with N5 billion.
The group disclosed this in a statement made
available to the News Agency of Nigeria
(NAN) in Jos on Tuesday.
The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the
farmers under the name “Buhari-Osibajo
Presidential Appeal Campaign Fund
(BOPCAF), Rev. Jacob Musa, 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 Prof. Emmanuel Garba, who lost the
governorship primary of the APC in Plateau
State, 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 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 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
Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers in his
capacity as the Director-General of the
Buhari-Osibajo Campaign Organisation on
January 2, 2015.
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