A Borno-based man of God has confirmed an allegation made by Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State that President Goodluck Jonathan bribed some pastors in the country to pacify their members to vote for him in the forthcoming presidential election.
Some days ago, the governor made the allegation, claiming that about N6 billion exchanged hands between the President and the men of God through the Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor-led Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN.
Addressing newsmen on Thursday in Kaduna, Pastor Kallamu Musa-Dikwa said Jonathan gave the pastors N7 billion, not N6 billion as earlier alleged by Amaechi.
He explained that the money got to CAN on Monday, January 26, 2015 and that most of the beneficiaries received N3 million each.
Musa-Dikwa said CAN disbursed N3 million to each of the state chairmen of CAN in the country. The money, as the man of God informed newsmen, was to enable the pastors persuade their congregations to vote for Jonathan at the poll and not Muhammadu Buhari.
“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 January 26, 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,”, the Borno-based pastor told journalists on Thursday.
Musa-Dikwa is the Executive Director of the Voice of Northern Christian Movement and was formerly an Associate Pastor with the E. Y. N. Church, Farm Centre, Dikwa Road, Maiduguri, Borno State, under Rev Emmanuel Kwajihe between 2002 and 2004.
