No fewer than two thousand South East businessmen have raised N1 billion to support the campaign of Asíwájú Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress.APC
Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma made this known Thursday at the Town Hall meeting between Tinubu and leaders in the region.
Uzodinma said the membership of the group was drawn from the five states of the region.
Confirming the contribution,a spokesman for the group Emeka Mgbudem said the group is committed to peace.in the country and believed in the Tinubu project.
Ngbudem said after reading Tinubu’s Action Plan for Nigeria, members contributed N500,000 each to support his presidential campaign.
He lamented the numerous checkpoints on the roads which posed a challenge to traders and asked Tinubu to remove them and also build the roads linking the state capitals in the region.
In his response,, Tinubu pledged to introduce technology in the clearing of goods at the ports that will void unecessary checkpoints on the roads.
The APC Candidate promised to run a government where all Nigerians are treated equally.
