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, 2015.”
“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.
Credit: The Punch
Credit: The Punch
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