Jonathan bribed pastors with N7bn, not N6bn – Cleric

Jonathan bribed pastors with N7bn, not N6bn – Cleric

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.