At the fundraising dinner, 21 PDP
Governors donated N50million each which came to N1.05billion. Business owners
in the Oil and Gas sector donated N5billion while their counterparts in the
Real Estate & Building made a donation of N4billion. Continue...
Players
in the Transport and Aviation sector made a pledge of N1billion, those in
Agriculture donated N500million while those in the power sector pledged N500m.
Board of the Shelter Development Limited donated N250million while players in
the Construction sector pledged N310million. Road Construction players pledged
N250million while the National Automative Association pledged N450million. The Chairman
of the fundraising dinner, Mr Tunde Ayeni made a donation of N2billion while
the Chairman of SIFAX group donated 100million. The Rivers state PDP Chapter
donated N50million.
Africa's Richest man, Aliko Dangote
who was made the Chief Fund Raiser was absent at the event as he is said to be
out of Nigeria but his representative, Joseph Makanju promised that the
business mogul would make his donation known once he arrives Nigeria.
With all the monies announced at the
fundraising dinner as well as those from private individuals, a total of
N21.27bn was realized.
President
Jonathan afterwards thanked everyone who donated and promised that their
donations would not be in vain.
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