Pastor alleges President Jonathan gave clerics N7billion, not N6billion

A Borno-based Pastor, Kallamu Musa-Dikwa has alleged that the money President Jonathan gave some pastors in Nigeria was 7 billion naira not N6bn to vote against the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), in the presidential election. Musa-Dikwa’s disclosure is coming after Governor Rotimi Amaechi, who doubles as the Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation, alleged that some unnamed leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party paid N6bn to Christian clerics to campaign against Buhari and the APC.

Musa-Dikwa, who is the Executive Director of the Voice of Northern Christian Movement, told newsmen in Kaduna 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. In his words, “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.”

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Deji Sadiq, a.k.a DEJI OF LAGOS is a LASU trained Economist turned freelance journalist, a Blogger, an information strategist, a public affairs analyst and a committed activist with a passion for equal opportunities.