Jonathan Actually Bribed Pastors With N7bn, Not Even N6bn- Cleric

A Borno-based Pastor, Kallamu Musa-Dikwa has said the allegation raised against President Jonathan and his party by the
Governor of Rivers State that the president bribed some Christian leaders in
the country in order not to support Muhammadu Buhari is true. According to him,
in fact Gov. Amaechi made a mistake by saying the sum of the bribe was N6bn, while
it was actually N7bn. Read the report after the cut.

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.