Nigerian Police Probe Obama Fundraising Dinner
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Newsmax, August 21, 2008 10:57 PM
Nigeria’s anti-corruption police were questioning the head of the stock exchange after she organised a gala dinner in support of Barack Obama’s U.S. presidential campaign which raised hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, chairwoman of the “Africans for Obama” campaign group, organised the fundraising dinner in the commercial capital Lagos on August 11. A “platinum” ticket for a table of eight cost 2.5 million naira ($21,226).
In a letter to Nigeria’s The Punch newspaper, the Obama campaign in the United States said it was in no way affiliated with “Africans for Obama” or with the gala dinner and said it would not accept any funds from the group.
It is illegal under U.S. law for foreign campaign groups to donate funds to political parties in the United States.
“We’re trying to establish who is the beneficiary of the funds raised at the dinner,” said Femi Babafemi, spokesman for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
“We learned that quite some hundreds of millions of naira were raised,” he said.
Okereke-Onyiuke said in a full-page statement in Nigeria’s The Guardian newspaper on Thursday that the Aug. 11 dinner had never been intended to raise funds or solicit donations for the Obama campaign.
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[Okereke-Onyiuke] said any surplus funds from the event would be used for advertisements encouraging Africans eligible to do so to vote.
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(Posted on August 22, 2008)
Comments
When Obama’s own brother lives in a hut, who in Africa has $21,226 to spend on a fundraising dinner? Oh, of course, the many perpetrators of the “419” scam. I’m sure they’ll figure out a way “to encourage Africans to vote,” all right.
Posted by Tim in Indiana at 7:27 PM on August 22
When Obama’s own brother lives in a hut, who in Africa has $21,226 to spend on a fundraising dinner? Oh, of course, the many perpetrators of the “419” scam. I’m sure they’ll figure out a way “to encourage Africans to vote,” all right.
Simple, make all Nigerians, Ugandans, Somalis, Ethiopians!! hell!! all of AFRICA Honorary U.S. citizens so they can vote in our elections by Nov.
Posted by Skip at 5:11 AM on August 23
Maybe it’s perverse, but I’m actually looking forward to the election of Barack Hussein Obama as the next president of the USA. As all of his corruption and factional favoritism comes to the fore, Barack Obama in the Oval Office will be the one thing, and I mean the only thing to finally wake up US Whites out of our self-destructive collective stupor. Most of the Whites in my old neighborhood have left, some even leaving the USA and going to a country like Germany or Switzerland— but among the few who are left, they’re actually voting for Obama for this reason alone.
Juan McCain would only allow the complacency to continue, to allow the temperature on the pot to slowly increase while we, the complacent Whites, continue as the frogs slowly boiling inside. Obama in power would be the only thing to wake us from this slumber!
Posted by Miroslav at 8:28 AM on August 23
I thought it was illegal for foreigners to contribute to US candidates. Isn’t it also a felony to knowingly accept these contributions?
Posted by at 12:12 PM on August 25