Northern Farmers Plan To Sell Yams To Raise N5b For Buhari-Osinbajo Presidential Campaign

A group of yam farmers across some northern states in the
country have pledged to support the All Progressives Congress (APC)
presidential candidate, Gen. Mohammadu Buhari’s campaign in the 2015 general
elections with N5 billion. The group disclosed this in a statement made available
to NAN in Jos on Today.

Rev. Jacob Musa, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the
farmers under the name “Buhari-Osinbajo Presidential Appeal Campaign Fund
(BOPCAF), said that farmers from 10 states of the federation were planning the
fund raiser.

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.

Meanwhile they plan to raise the money by selling five
million tubers of yam at a special price of N1,000 each towards raising the
said N5 billion in support of the APC candidate,