ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, has disclosed that 2,000 South-East businessmen have supported the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress presidential, the (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, with the sum of N1 billion.
Governor Uzodimma made this announcement on Thursday at the town hall meeting between Tinubu and business leaders in the region.
This was contained in a statement issued by Director of Media and Publicity, APC Presidential Campaign Council, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, on Thursday, noting that membership of the group was drawn from the five states of the region.
Uzodinma said: “I am happy to say our people are fully in support of our Presidential candidate who has come to share his vision and plan for Nigeria and South East today.
“To support this aspiration the sum of N1billion naira has been raised by 2000 business owners across the South East states.”
Also, the spokesman for the group, Emeka Mgbudem, said the members contributed N500,000 each because they believe in Tinubu after reading his Action Plan for Nigeria.
He noted that where an Igbo man puts his money, he puts his heart.
Mgbudem urged Tinubu to remove the numerous checkpoints on the roads in the region and also build the roads linking the state capitals in the region.
Responding, Tinubu pledged to introduce technology in the clearing of goods at the ports that will render unnecessary checkpoints on the roads.
Also, he promised to run a government where all Nigerians are treated equally.