UPDATED: Jonathan to pick PDP nomination form 2pm today

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati disclosed this to State House journalists yesterday.Abati said Jonathan had received from a spectrum of Nigerians, amounts totaling N98.66 million as donations to help the president pay the required N22 million for the PDP presidential nomination fee and expression of interest form.He […]

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati disclosed this to State House journalists yesterday.
Abati said Jonathan had received from a spectrum of Nigerians, amounts totaling N98.66 million as donations to help the president pay the required N22 million for the PDP presidential nomination fee and expression of interest form.
He said the president was grateful to all the persons, groups and communities who had sent donations and those who made pledges to assist him to pay the amount.
According to him, the president thanks all Nigerians, members of the PDP, friends, associates and all groups who, in sincere appreciation of the achievements of the administration in the last four years, have been urging him to seek a second term in office.
 He said Jonathan was greatly encouraged by the overwhelming outpouring of goodwill and support as well as the confidence of the generality of Nigerians in his ability to continue to transform the country for the good of all of its peoples.
Abati said the president assured the donors that he would continue to do his utmost best at all times to fully justify the great confidence they had placed in his leadership.
He said Jonathan acknowledged and accepted with immense gratitude, the following donations and pledges that he had received from a broad section of Nigerians: Mr. Kennedy Ikenna Odoeme, N5,000; Mr Ezemagu Sunday Nnamdi, N10,000; PDP governors, N22 million; Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN), N22 million; Ogbia LGA Stakeholders, Bayelsa state, N5m; Otuoke Community Stakeholders, N2m; Brass LGA Stakeholders, Bayelsa State, N50,000; Bayelsa State PDP Stakeholders, N5m; Northern Youths Forum, N2m; Central Market Traders Union, Kaduna State, N1m; PDP Stakeholders, Zaria LGA, N500,000; PDP Stakeholders, Yobe State, N500,000.
Other donations were PDP Stakeholders, Kaduna State, N2m; Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, N5m; the Goodluck Support Group, Gombe State, N1m and Adamawa State PDP Stakeholders, N3m.
Others are Ebonyi State PDP Stakeholders, N2m; Kogi State PDP Stakeholders, N5m; Rivers State PDP Stakeholders, N5m; the 2015 Project, N1m; Team Goodluck, Ondo North Senatorial District, N5m; Middle Belt PDP Women Support Group for GEJ 2015, N500,000; King David Generation Foundation, Jos, N200,000; Behwong Weneng Yere Duk, Jos, N200,000; Redemption 3 Youth Organisation and Plateau State, N500,000.
The rest are Plateau State Indigenes Association, Abuja, N300,000; Gombe Youth United for Goodluck Ebele Jonathan 2015, N500,000; Gombe Youth Vanguard for PDP, N500,000;
Yamahu/Deba Goodluck Support Group, N200,000; Coalition of Gombe Support Groups for Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, N2m;
Hinna Youth Coalition for Goodluck, N500, 000; Nigerian Women Pray for Jonathan, N1m; National Association of Widows, N100,000; National Council of Women Societies, N500,000; Female members of the PDP Board of Trustees, N500,000; Joint Association of Persons with Disabilities, N100,000; National Association of Market Women, N500,000; and Community Awareness and Development Network, N1 million.