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.
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.
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