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Southeast Businessmen Donates N1 Billion To Support Tinubu’s Presidential Campaign – Imo Governor

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By Olarewaju Falayi

A group known as Southeast Businessmen and numbering about Two Thousand people have made a whopping donation of the sum of N1 billion to support the Presidential Campaigns of the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the 2023 Presidential Election. 

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Mr Bayo Onanuga, the Director, Media and Publicity for the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council issue the statement revealing information about the donation in 

Owerri on Thursday. 

Governor Hope Uzodimma, the Imo State Governor made this known on Thursday at the Town Hall meeting between Tinubu and business leaders in the region. He said the membership of the group was drawn from the five States of the region. 

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“I am happy to say our people are fully in support of our Presidential candidate who has come to share his vision and plan for Nigeria and South East today. To support this aspiration, the sum of N1billion naira has been raised by a total of 2000 business owners across the South East States,” Governor Uzodimma declared. 

A spokesman for the group Emeka Mgbudem said “the group believes in Nigeria and is committed to peace”.

“He said members contributed N500,000 each because they believe in Tinubu, after reading his Action Plan for Nigeria. He said where an Ibo man puts his money, he puts his heart”.

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He however asked Tinubu to remove the numerous checkpoints on the roads in the region and also build the roads linking the state capitals in the region. 

Responding, Tinubu pledged to introduce technology in the clearing of goods at the ports that will render unnecessary the checkpoints on the roads.

He also promised to run a government where all Nigerians are treated equally.

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