More facts appear to be emerging on the allegation by Rivers State
Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, that President Goodluck Jonathan gave pastors
across the country N6bn to vote against the Presidential candidate of
the All Progressives Congress, Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), in the
presidential election.
A Borno-based Pastor, Kallamu Musa-Dikwa,
said on Thursday that the money that was given to pastors by the
President was actually N7bn and not N6bn as alleged by Amaechi, who
doubles as the Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign
Organisation.
Amaechi had alleged that unnamed leaders of the
Peoples Democratic Party paid N6bn to Christian clerics to campaign
against Buhari and the APC.
The governor’s allegation caused a
stir among the Christian clerics, with the Pentecostal Fellowship of
Nigeria and the Northern State Christian Elders Forum asking Amaechi to
name the church leaders, who collected the huge bribe.
But
Musa-Dikwa, who is the Executive Director of the Voice of Northern
Christian Movement, told journalists in Kaduna on Thursday that the said
money was channelled through the Christian Association of Nigeria.
He
said the CAN got the said money(N7bn) on January 26, 2015 and disbursed
N3m to each State Chairmen of the CAN across the country.
Musa-Dikwa,
who was an Associate Pastor with the E. Y. N. Church, Farm Centre,
Dikwa Road, Maiduguri, Borno State, under Rev. Emmanuel Kwajihe between
2002 and 2004, said the CAN had started threatening Christians in the
state (Borno) that they must re-elect Jonathan in the rescheduled
election.
He said, “It was N7bn that was given to the CAN
leadership by President Goodluck Jonathan. They(CAN) later disbursed N3m
to the State Chairmen of the CAN.
“The money was handed over to the CAN Leadership on 26th January, 2014.”
“Actually,
President Jonathan is using CAN President, and it was the CAN President
who collected the monies and shared N3m to the CAN executives in each
state.
“And some Pentecostal Bishops also collected their share.
Actually, the money is not N6bn, it is N7bn. This is what I know. One of
the CAN officials from Abuja told me that they have collected the
money. The corruption in CAN is terrible. They are corrupting the body
of Christ because of money.
“They are now threatening Christians
in Borno State that they will deal with anybody, who refuses to vote for
Jonathan. And the CAN officials are now campaigning that if Buhari
emerges President, he will Islamise Nigeria; and that Osinbajo collected
monies from Islamic world; and that the same Osinbajo will resign soon
after Buhari wins to give way for Tinubu to emerge Vice President.”
Musa-Dikwa
named some high-profile clerics, who had benefitted from the
controversial largesse to actualise the re-election bid of Jonathan.
Culled from Punch
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