month’s presidential elections, the presidential campaign of General
Muhammed Buhari, the candidate of the opposition All Progressives
Congress, APC, has suffered unforeseen set back.
Latest reports inform that the Nigerian Communications Commission,
NCC, has shut down the 35350 SMS platform for raising fund for the
former Head of State’s campaign.
It was disclosed that the platform was one of the five launched in Lagos on Tuesday.
Speaking at a news conference on Thursday at the State House, Marina, Lagos, southwest Nigeria,
the Director, Buhari-Osinbajo Fund Raising Campaign, Governor Babatunde
Fashola stated that President Goodluck Jonathan is using the NCC to
haunt the opposition party.
It was gathered that the 35350 platform was set up to enable Nigerians to donate to Buhari’s presidential campaign through recharge cards.
According to Fashola, the NCC shut down the platform on Wednesday afternoon after it wrote to the telecom operators not to carry such messages.
Fashola added that since Wednesday, he had been receiving messages
from people wanting to contribute that they could not get through to the
line because NCC had shut it down.
He said in 2010, the same platform was granted by the NCC to raise fund for the Jonathan-Sambo campaign, while appealing to the president to direct NCC to restore the platform as the people’s freedom was being gagged.
The governor restated that it entered into business relationship with the telecom operators and was never a political issue to make them partisan.
Fashola lamented that in recent time, Jonathan had become so desperate and intolerant that he oppressed the opposition in a bid to hold on to power at all costs.
He said he never expected to witness such brazen lawlessness and repression of the people’s freedom to express themselves all in the quest to cling to power at all costs.
“Why should a commercial transaction be frustrated because of one man’s desire to serve and why should they be shutting down generational platform?” he asked.
Fashola said the Federal Government had earlier shut down the APC’s website which made the party to launch another platform which is still being haunted by the presidency.
The governor said the APC would explore all legal means to fight for its interest but lamented that the courts had been shut down for long, thus, preventing the party from using it to seek reddress.
It was disclosed that the platform was one
of the five launched in Lagos on Tuesday.Speaking at a news conference on Thursday at the State House, Marina, Lagos, southwest Nigeria
,
the Director, Buhari-Osinbajo Fund Raising Campaign, Governor Babatunde
Fashola stated that President Goodluck Jonathan is using the NCC to
haunt the opposition party.It was gathered that the 35350 platform was set up to enable Nigerians to donate to Buhari’s presidential campaign through recharge cards.
According to Fashola, the NCC shut down the platform on Wednesday afternoon after it wrote to the telecom operators not to carry such messages.
Babatunde Fashola
He said in 2010, the same platform was granted by the NCC to raise fund for the Jonathan-Sambo campaign, while appealing to the president to direct NCC to restore the platform as the people’s freedom was being gagged.
The governor restated that it entered into business relationship with the telecom operators and was never a political issue to make them partisan.
Fashola lamented that in recent time, Jonathan had become so desperate and intolerant that he oppressed the opposition in a bid to hold on to power at all costs.
He said he never expected to witness such brazen lawlessness and repression of the people’s freedom to express themselves all in the quest to cling to power at all costs.
“Why should a commercial transaction be frustrated because of one man’s desire to serve and why should they be shutting down generational platform?” he asked.
Fashola said the Federal Government had earlier shut down the APC’s website which made the party to launch another platform which is still being haunted by the presidency.
The governor said the APC would explore all legal means to fight for its interest but lamented that the courts had been shut down for long, thus, preventing the party from using it to seek reddress.
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