The Okada rider in Kaduna and a member-elect for the Kaura Constituency in the Federal House of Representatives, Donatus Matthew, says you don’t need money to win an election.
Speaking to newsmen on how he won the February 25 National Assembly on the platform of the Labour Party, Mathew said it is a wrong idea to think you must have money to win an election.
In his words, “The wrong idea people had was that one must have money and that one must have a big car; that is wrong. So, they focused on those who had money and big cars.
“They minded me riding a motorcycle. So, that was why many people could not understand that I was campaigning because they knew I rode a motorcycle and I don’t know if my movement on a motorcycle was what made them think that I was not campaigning.
“That is left for them. But as far as I am concerned, we took our time; we went round, we met with people, begged them for their support, we solicited their support for which, at the end of the day we had every cause to glorify the Lord.
“You know, everybody has their understanding of what a campaign is. I think they probably defined a campaign based on their understanding. But you see, nobody will go into a contest without going out to campaign. That is one.
“Two, who are they even campaigning to? You see, we are politicians from the grassroots and the people from the grassroots know us very well. So, we do not come from any other place and go around telling people this is who we are or this is what we want. Already, by a mere declaration that someone like me was joining the contest, there were people all over the area that could say one or two things about me. So, I have the people, I have the masses.
“All I needed to do was to go round and thank them and tell them to join me and help me in this quest and that was what we did.”
