Goodluck Paid Pastors N7bn Not N6bn..Borno Cleric

A Borno-based pastor has corroborated an earlier allegation made by Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, accusing the People Democratic Party (PDP) of bribing several pastors to tarnish the image of All Progressives Party presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari.

Kallamu Musa-Dikwa on Thursday said that the money given to pastors by President Jonathan is actually seven billion not six billion as alleged by Amaechi who is the Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation.

The allegation made by Amaechi last month, caused controversy among 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.
Pastor Musa-Dikwa - 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 Christian Association of Nigeria got the 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 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 had allegedly named some high-profile clerics, who had benefitted from the controversial largess to actualise the re-election bid of Jonathan.