Punch is reporting that Jonathan is demanding refund from his Ministers, totalling 2 trillion. He's upset that he lost the election after spending very handsomely by handling 20 billion Naira each to his minister and yet they didn't deliver on the presidential election. The Punch report also revealed that addition money was given to them to mobilise their supporters for the National Assembly election, it was a failure too.
The president is demanding a forensic audit of their expenditure and all unspent kobos should be returned. GEJites has been debunking the report, they claim Punch is not a credible newspaper. Twitter has been reacting to this report, is not been looking good for GEJ on there. See some tweets below.
Read an interesting excerpt from the report, but you can read the full report on Punch.
“Some ministers did not get less than N20bn each. None of them can deny it because this fact isn’t hidden within government circles. The only problem with such monies is that there is no receipt to show that they collected money. The sad part is that almost all of them performed woefully. Even in the states where the PDP won, some ministers could not deliver 100,000 votes. They could not mobilise their people to come out. The President is not happy. They all went property and car shopping. This was the most expensive election in the history of this country, yet there was no result.
“The sad part was that even after the President lost on March 28, more money was given to all of them to make up for the dismal outing by winning their states during the April 11 elections. But that turned out to be a bad decision because apart from losing the governorship election, we didn’t perform well at the National Assembly and House of Representatives polls.
“They must give an account of the money since they didn’t use it for the election. The President is not particular about the funds spent on genuine campaign needs like the hiring of jets, advertisements and the rest that also cost billions of naira. His focus is on the individuals that collected billions to deliver their states but couldn’t even win their polling booths.”
If they are using 2 trillion for campaign... how much did they take for themselves in 4 years?
— ... (@AVARIBERRY) April 19, 2015
GEJ is the singular worst thing to ever happen to this country. Nothing comes close. Nothing.
— Abiola Kazeem (@biolakazeem) April 19, 2015
If u had spent 2 Trillion to make a Nigeria a better place, u won't be needing 100m to make ppl vote u in again
— King Lizzy (@oluwayemisii_) April 19, 2015
If Goodluck Jonathan had 2 trillion naira to spend on election, why would he be going for 2nd term? I beg make... http://t.co/ftlGkiHDSA
— Kayode Ogundamisi (@ogundamisi) April 19, 2015
2 Trillion Though...this is 419 at the highest level!
— Teefah (@that1960chick) April 19, 2015
2 trillion, 20b Us dollars ..... mehn dangote shuddnt be the richest man in Africa
— Majidadin Arewa Bebs (@abba_jega) April 19, 2015
You guys who are acting shocked
Do you realise that 2 Trillion Naira is less than the supposed missing 20 Billion Dollars right?
— nims of the west (@nimyde) April 19, 2015
Credit: Punch
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