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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