He said, “We raised about N21bn on fund-raising dinner. The purpose of this press conference is to say that right from the start, we were raising money for the PDP and the project of the party, the documents and letters said so, the speeches confirmed it and during the day of the fund raising, in my own speech and the speech of the Vice President who happens to be an architect, there was a specific focus on this building–that this is one project we want to complete.
Metuh also told Punch correspondent that the money the national leadership of the party had kept aside to use for the secretariat from the amount generated from the sales of forms was spent.
He said that the NWC was asked to divert the amount to the campaign of its governorship candidates during the last elections.
He said that the directive came after the party had lost the Presidential election to the All Progressives Congress. Metuh said, “The one (money) we kept for the completion of the secretariat, after we lost the presidential election. We were directed to divert the funds to the campaign organisation (of our governorship candidates).
“So, we channeled it directly to our governorship candidates across the country in over 30 states and other candidates in the House of Assemblies.
“That really depleted the funds of the party and almost brought it to ground zero.
“As we speak, we don’t have funds for the completion of the new secretariat. The acting chairman of the NWC would take the issue to the national caucus to know how we can engage the services of developers on some arrangements.”
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