The All Progressives Congress (APC) has it would drag the National Communications Commission (NCC) to court to challenge the shutdown of some of its fund raising platforms on telecommunication network.
The NCC is the regulator of the Nigeria’s telecom sector. It will be recalled that the regulatory agency drew the ire of the opposition part when it ordered telecommunication network to discontinue the platform that allowed people to contribute to the re-election of APC Presidential Candidate, Muhammadu Buhari.
The Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State during a meeting of the Fund Raising Directorate of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation in Abuja yesterday said the directive to shut the platform was contained in a letter signed by the Director of Consumer Affairs, Maryam Bayi, Head of Legal and Regulatory Services Yinka Akinloye, on behalf of the NCC Executive Vice-Chairman, Dr Eugene Juwah.
Fashola alleged that in 2010, approval was given to some parties’ campaign organisations to raise funds using such platform but that the APC is being denied the same right in 2015.
“We have advised our lawyers to go to court. They are preparing the papers now. In 2010 approval was given to other presidential candidates to campaign to raise fund (using such a platform).
“The rule seems to have changed in 2015,” he said.
