The BBC reported 5 days ago about money that was destined for Obama here in the United States. Guess where it was coming from? Nigeria. What part of illegal donations don’t our overseas friends understand? Or for the matter doesn’t Obama realize he can’t take overseas donations? We do know Obama doesn’t understand federal election laws when it comes to financing a campaign.
The story begins with a very expensive fund raiser dinner by most standards. This dinner cost $21,000 for an eight seat table. Fortunately the money never reached the USA. The money was raised to influence relatives of native Nigerians to vote for Obama by running advertisements.
The money was seized by some very astute Nigerians.
Nigerian anti-graft investigators have seized money raised by the head of the Nigerian Stock Exchange to support US presidential candidate Barack Obama.
The money will be returned to the individuals in Nigeria that attended the soiree according to The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. They also had this to say:
The EFCC said it had seized 74m naira ($630,000, £314,000), but said no Nigerian laws had been broken.
According to the BBC, the Obama campaign distanced itself from the group. Unfortunately the Nigerians left their footprints on Obama’s website. More on that:
Stock exchange chairwoman Ndi Okereke-Onyuike is also the head of Africans for Obama, a Nigeria-based support group.
She was interviewed by the EFCC after media reports that the Obama campaign had disassociated itself from the group.
Obama manages to escape everything with any appearance of illegality. He either disassociates himself from people or he is allowed to plead “mea culpa” as in the case of the Gaza Strip brothers and fraudulent reports to the FEC concerning Citizens Services Inc. a front company for ACORN. Mrs Okereke-Onyiuke said,
“We never said we were going to donate money for the campaign,”
“We paid for the hall and the entertainers and the surplus, we said it would be spent on advertisements aimed at persuading Nigerians to tell their relatives in America to register to vote.
“There is not one Nigerian who doesn’t have a relative or friend in America. Our aim was to encourage those people to tell their family who have the right to vote in America to vote for Obama.”
A statement from the EFCC said they had ordered Mrs Okereke-Onyuike to “steer clear of such activities in future”.
Mrs Okereke-Onyiuke said the press was trying to attack her because they were jealous of her success.
“I am a woman of the highest integrity,” she told the BBC News website.
By all appearances Obama’s activity with this lady and her group looks like his activity may not have been on the up and up. I will leave that conclusion to you!