Some former members of the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM), a political
machinery that was the brain child of the former vice president, Atiku Abubakar,
have revealed how the embattled governor of Ondo state, Olusegun Mimiko,
bribed leaders of the party to endorse President Goodluck Jonathan for a second
term.
They spoke on Monday shortly after the endorsement press conference at the
Adegbemile Cultural Centre Press in Akure on Monday by the members of the
group under the banner of Atiku and the PDM.
The group, which has members across the Southwest states of the country
through its leader, Bode Ajewole said their decision to endorse Jonathan was
hinged on the position of Jonathan to implement the recommendations of last
year’s National Conference immediately he is reelected.
They said: “The Yoruba people are in the support of the recommendation of the
Confab held last year, most which the sitting president Dr. Goodluck Ebele
Jonathan has vowed to implement immediately after his re-election.
"Believing in the ultimate fulfillment of Jonathan promises to us in the
southwest, we therefore direct all members of AAA/PDM collectives and all
members of the Yar-Adua political family in the southwest including those in
APC, SDP, PDM, Labour Party and Accord to support and vote for President
Goodluck Jonathan.”
But speaking with a SaharaReporters correspondent shortly after the purported
endorsement, the members of the group confirmed they were bribed through the
leadership of the group to endorse President Jonathan.
Some of them, who spoke under condition of anonymity, disclosed to
SaharaReporters that they were fully mobilized from other Southwest states to
travel to Akure, with all expenses paid, to carry out the endorsement, and that
their leaders received a huge sum of money from Governor Mimiko for the job.
“Quote me anywhere, Governor Mimiko gave us money through our leaders to
endorse President Goodluck Jonathan for second term. I know you are very
inquisitive and eager to know more but I won’t tell you the amount I was given
but I can tell you it’s a bribe”, one of the members said.
A woman and member of the PDM from Ekiti State also disclosed that she
received a text message from the publicist of the group to mobilize members to
Akure for the endorsement. Thereafter they were paid cash for the visit, she
said.
“Although leaders of the group have been telling us that there would be a
meeting in Akure with some powerful politicians but they never revealed that the
meeting would be with governor Mimiko to endorse President Jonathan but this
morning I received a text message to mobilize some members to Akure for a
Press conference and that was how I got to know that it was President
Jonathan they want to endorse”, she revealed.
“I received N30, 000 for the visit, although a friend told me, I was cheated
because I came all the way from Ogun state in free vehicle but at least I didn’t
lose, I still gained from them”, another member told our correspondent.
Asked if he would surely vote Jonathan in the next week presidential election,
he said “My friend, I don’t know the people in other Southwest states but for
[us] in Ogun State Jonathan is a failure because if I vote him, my wife would kill
me, she dislike Jonathan [more] than anything. The man has done nothing in
the Southwest and he wants [our] vote.
“We are just collecting this money because it’s our money. We shall keep on
deceiving him and his cohorts like Mimiko, we know that General Buhari is the
only change for now that we need”, he declared.
Meanwhile, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM),
Bashir Yusuf, has described those who endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan,
at a press briefing in Akure as “not card carrying members” of the movement.
“We wish to make it categorically clear that members of the group that
addressed the press conference in question are not members of PDM,” he
declared in a statement issued in Abuja on Monday. “They defected from our
Party in June last year to pursue their aspiration in APC and are no longer
members of our party.”
Furthermore, he stressed that the party had already endorsed the candidature of
General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as far back
as January, reiterating that those who endorsed Jonathan lacked the mandate
to speak for the party.
The National Chairman dissociated the party from the purported press
conference convened alongside governor Mimiko in Akure in the name of the
party to endorse Jonathan for a second term.
“Since they are not card-carrying members of PDM, they do not speak for PDM
nor have any basis for doing so. While we wish them luck with their new project
of supporting President Goodluck Jonathan in the forthcoming election, we call
on them to desist from using the name of PDM in this obviously sponsored and
commercial misadventure. They should find another platform to realise their
aspiration since PDM is not for the highest bidder.
“The National Executive Committee of PDM had, at its meeting of January 22,
2015 unanimously, without any dissension, resolved to support the candidature
of General Muhammadu Buhari and our Party will stand by that commitment
until the end.
“Our members are already busy canvassing for support for Gen. Buhari across
the country and will not be distracted from doing so. These political jobbers
should please leave PDM out of their Jonathan-for-president misadventure”, the
statement read.
Source: saharareporters.com/2015/03/17/pdm-pretend-members-akure-reveal-gov-mimiko-paid-jonathan-support-party-national-chairman

I said it.

I don't do saharareporters with their nameless source those that endorsed GEJ has names and we saw them while those that said they where bribed are nameless and faceless.............GEJ till 2019

brb

Na today dem dey bribe...smh
Everything will be over soon

Twale Saharareporters you guys can lie I swear..... and God knows that

Rilwayne001:
I said it.

What did you say?

Thrash from d pit of hell

It is not bribery..... It is campaigning. After all, stealing is not corruption.

ozoigbondu:
I don't do saharareporters with their nameless source.............GEJ till 2019

That's what PDP are good at, i'm not surprise anyway click like for GMB/PYO

Yeah! We know the usual story from APC and their media mouthpieces about everybody who endorses or supports GEJ: They have Ben bribed with BILLIONS of dollars.

We've heard this story plenty times.

NEXT!!!

SeverusSnape:

What did you say?

That those alleged Atiku group are men sponsored by mimiko.

kome chop!

Rilwayne001:


That those alleged Atiku group are men sponsored by mimiko.

Okay.

SeverusSnape:
Okay.

What is "okay"?

Isn't it obvious that jonaTAN has been fooled again?

Let those that are getting paid to do endorsement keep collecting the cash,let those that are paying groups for endorsement keep paying,in 10days time,Nigerians will decide, and I tell u a big disappointment awaits them. By the way,it seems that Kolomental Governor of Ekiti has been called to order. He seems to be have soft pedalled recently.

Rilwayne001:


What is "okay"?

Isn't it obvious that jonaTAN has been fooled again?

"Okay" means I don't buy this propaganda.
APC= Angry Propagandist Congress.

SeverusSnape:

"Okay" means I don't buy this propaganda.
APC= Angry Propagandist Congress.

The comment above this post of yours is enough for a sane individual.

#10days to go

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A dying man will do anything, no matter how silly it seems, just to have a remote chance of surviving.

Don't blame JonaTAN for he is only doing what any dying man will naturally do. The unfortunate thing is, 99% of the times, they still die.

I beg make me ma get my share of the $21b

Dtz what dey good @... our votes shall prevail on dt day.

Jst get ur PVC =Please Vote Change.

Bcoz, I have decided to march4change.

I know your silence must be for a reason not like the ifeot in that state
bros i hail but the will of the electorate will prevail this time

Why is it always 'sources', ' sources' and more 'sources'