Barely 48 hours after the Buhari-Osinbajo Presidential Campaign
Fundraising Committee launched some of its platforms for raising funds,
the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has shut down the Short
Messaging Service (SMS) platform – 35350 – meant to encourage small
donors, especially young people, to do so.
Director of the Committee and Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde
Fashola (SAN), had on Tuesday unveiled five platforms, including
partnership with five banks for donors wishing to pay cash towards the
fund, the electronic payment platform involving logging in on the APC
domain name www.apcgmbpyo.org, the SMS, the Ring tone and the Scratch
Card platforms.
However, briefing the press in Lagos yesterday, Governor Fashola
announced with regrets that before the end of Tuesday after the launch
of the platforms, the NCC had issued a letter to the telecoms operators
“not to carry political messages” thereby shutting down the SMS
platform.
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