Yam Farmers donate N5bn for Buhari’s campaign

It is strange but real that peasant farmers can mobilize a princely sum of Five Billion naira for a presidential candidate.

www.odogwublog.com reports that yam farmers across some northern states in the country yesterday pledged to support the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, General Mohammadu Buhari’s campaign in the 2015 general elections with N5 billion.

Reverend Jacob Musa, Public Relations Officer, PRO, of the farmers on the name “Buhari-Osibajo Presidential Appeal Campaign Fund, BOPCAF, stated this in Jos, Plateau state.

He said that farmers from Taraba, Nasarawa, Plateau, Adamawa, Benue, Kogi, Kwara, Niger and Kaduna states as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, would feature at the occasion.