Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Maj. Gen. Mohammadu Buhari said yesterday that so far, Nigerians have donated N54m to support his campaign ahead of the 2015 election.

The amount is paltry, considering the whopping N21bn in donations raked in on Saturday at the fund raising dinner for President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign.

Briefing journalists yesterday in Abuja, Buhari said currently 82 support groups have been registered under the Buhari Support Organisations, BSO, with 475, 796 coordinators and total membership in the region of 8, 492, 226 across the country.

Buhari thanked Nigerians for donating generously to actualise his dream.

“We intend to use the registration and donation cards to enlist the members of the groups as volunteer change agents and also capture the spatial distribution of our donors,” he said.

He warned that only the authorised account designated for the crowd funding, which he is the sole signatory to is the BSO account with First Bank PLC.

“I know we live in difficult times in Nigeria. There is insecurity, corruption, poverty and above all the uncertainty of lives is becoming unbearable. I want to appeal to our supporters to continue making sacrifice till we get the needed change.”

But, Buhari while responding to the difference between the N21bn raked in by the PDP and the N54m said that his funding raising comes from the masses, who he said are the real voters.

He said that the will of the masses will always prevail, noting that money does not win elections but the determination of the people to see good governance.

Adapted from National Mirror