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Friday 20 February 2015

Borno Pastor Corroborates Amaechi, Says Jonathan Paid Pastors N7bn Through CAN To Campaign Against Buhari

A Borno-based Pastor, Kallamu Musa-Dikwa, has corroborated allegations 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.
The pastor has alleged that the money that was given to pastors by the President was actually N7bn and not N6bn as alleged by Amaechi, who is also the Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation.

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.


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.
Earlier, reports that as politicians continue desperately in their game of coercing votes in favor of their aspirations in the run up to the 2015 general Elections, findings unraveled a list of Kaduna Based Islamic Clerics who received cash to support the Jonathan Sambo campaign ticket.
The Islamic scholars and amounts received are; Malam Isa Adarkaki who received N 1, 000, 000, Malam Ibrahim kasuwar barci who got N 1, 000, 000, Malam Mustapha Muhammad got N500, 000, Shaikh Nuhu Alhafis N 1, 000, 000, Malam idris Na’ibi N500, 000, Malam Abdullahi Bayero N500, 000, Malam Mustapha Jarfa N 1, 000, 000, Sheikh Saluhu Zaria N 1, 000, 000, Malam Isa Abdullahi (Gen Garba Mosque) N 1, 000, 000, Malam Ibrahim Mustapha N500, 000, Malam Osama Giwa N500, 000, Malam Musa Assadussunnah N 1, 000, 000, Malam Hamisu Alnusri N500, 00 respectively.
Recall that Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi had alleged that unnamed leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party paid N6bn to Christian clerics to campaign against Buhari and the APC.
Reacting to Amaechi’s allegations, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has warned that pastors collecting bribes from politicians risk the wrath of God.
The renowned cleric said this on his official Facebook page, Adeboye, said, “I read in the newspaper this morning that one of the serving governors in Nigeria said that some pastors in Nigeria collected N6bn from politicians for the purpose of influencing their members to vote a certain candidate in the coming elections.
“May I humbly request that if there be any pastor or pastors who collected such money, they should please return such as quickly as possible before the fire of the Almighty consumes you.”
At such a critical time in the history of Nigeria’s democracy with more religious leaders leaking the plates of politicians for favor, the sanctity of their morality and spirituality leaves a huge question mark on the mind of curious observers.

(Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi had earlier accused President Jonathan of inducing Pastors to vote for him with bribes)

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