According to exclusive information obtained by The WhistleNG, about N500m may have gone into the planned protest tagged #OccupyNASS against the National Assembly under the leadership by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki tomorrow, Tuesday, 26th of April, 2016.
The protest led by the Citizens United for Peace and Stability (CUPS Nigeria) expects about 50,000 Nigerians from across the country to occupy “the National Assembly to reclaim Nigeria from the criminal Mafia cabal run by Bukola Saraki.”
A phone conversation between two of the major organizers of the protest (made available by one of the parties to our reporter) revealed that the key principal actors behind the protests are former Lagos governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai.
Nasir El-rufai was said to have mobilized resources from some of his cooperating colleagues in the North West and have agreed to take responsibility for the welfare and logistics of about 3000 protesters who will converge in Abuja for the planned protest.
The organizer revealed that a handful number of protesters arrived Abuja yesterday from Lagos had been well “taken care of” by a political aide to the former Lagos governor.
The organizer estimated that a total of N500m will have gone down into this operation based on the budget estimates sent to the key stakeholders.
The organizer said that the monies were not paid into the organization’s account. According to the organizer, CUPS started a fundraising campaign using the internet to create a false impression that the protest was citizen sponsored but has only succeeded in raising just over one million Naira only which he said was for the feeding of just about 1000 people.
The organizer who is obviously distraught that the other party is concealing information on some of the support received from some other unnamed parties and the distribution reminded our reporter that the interests of both El-Rufai an Tinubu on the Saraki issue is long standing.
He said that the CCT Chairman, Justice Danladi Umar was El-Rufai’s boy on the account of working under the Kaduna state governor during his stint as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory. He told our reporter to recall that the prosecution lawyer in the case, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs SAN, openly said that said in court that Governor Elrufai provided all evidence that will be used against Saraki.
The Senate President, Mr. Bukola Saraki in a letter released Saturday listed Tinubu as one of the kingpins behind his ordeal. He noted that this was as a result of his vehement opposition and resistance to the idea of a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket by his party the APC being sponsored with Tinubu scheming to become the vice presidential candidate. He also suggested his ascendancy to the Senate President position against Tinubu’s scheming has bruised the ego of the acclaimed political grandmaster.
The embattled Saraki who was is currently being tried by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) for allegation of false declaration of assets.
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