PDP, Ahmadu Ali sued by firm over N70m campaign debt

A firm, Silon Concepts Limited, has sued the Peoples Democratic Party and two officials of its Presidential Campaign Organisation for their alleged refusal to pay it an outstanding N70m balance for a campaign contract.

It filed its suit, marked CV/2017/15, before the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja on Thursday.

The plaintiff is demanding full payment for the ‘voice SMS campaign broadcast’ it sent to eligible voters on behalf of the PDP Presidential candidate, former President Goodluck Jonathan, before the March 28, 2015 presidential poll.

The two other members of the campaign organisation, who are defendants, are the Chairman, Ahmadu Ali, and Director of Finance, Senator Nenadi Usman.

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In addition to the demand for the N70m balance, the plaintiff asked the court to compel the defendants to pay to it the sum of N15m as the cost of the suit.

The plaintiff’s prayers read, “An order compelling the defendants to pay the plaintiff the sum of N70m being the outstanding balance for the contract executed by the plaintiff for the defendants.

“An order compelling the defendants to pay N15m, being the cost of the suit.

“An order compelling the defendants to pay the bank an annual interest rate of 10 per cent on the sum of N70m until the said sum is fully liquidated.”

The plaintiff claimed that the PDP, through Ali, agreed to pay it N100m for a contract of sending ‘Voice SMS campaign broadcast’ to eligible voters as part of the campaign for the party’s presidential candidate.

The PDP and its candidate eventually lost the March presidential election to President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress.