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Recalling the 2023 presidential election, Yesufu said Obi had initially been reluctant to allow public fundraising, but she had argued that citizens needed to be involved in financing the campaign.\n<\/p>\n
She said the previous fundraising exercise was accounted for, despite criticism from some quarters.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven last election, Mr Peter Obi never wanted us to use public fundraising. But I remember saying to him, people need to be involved. And when people give, they are emotionally invested.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd we did that fundraising. And at the end, there were a lot of people who said so many things. We put out the account. Everything we could was accounted for,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
Yesufu said the arrangement in which Obi largely provided the money for campaign activities was no longer sustainable, calling on supporters to contribute towards the effort.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cIt can no longer work. Every one of us have to put in our own widow\u2019s mite,\u201d she said.\n<\/p>\n
Clarifying the purpose of the initiative, Yesufu said the fundraising was separate from that of the political party, adding that the party would provide its own account details for interested donors.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not the party. This is what we, as citizens, are going to use to fund the things that we can do for Mr Peter Obi. The party are going to put out their own accounts.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThose who want to donate to the party, please wait for their account. This particular account that is here, it\u2019s for Peter Obi\u2019s campaign donated by citizens,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She also pledged to ensure transparency in the management of the donations, promising to account for every contribution received.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2023, I was accountable, and I accounted for every dime. And in 2027, by the grace of God, I will also be accountable. And I will account for every dime,\u201d Yesufu said.\n<\/p>\n
She urged Nigerians to support what she described as a citizens\u2019 campaign for Obi ahead of the 2027\n <\/p>\n
Source: <\/p>\n
Activist Aisha Yesufu has launched a public fundraising campaign to support the 2027 election bid of former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Yesufu made the appeal in a Wednesday… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}