Jonathan Bribed Pastors With N7bn, Not N6bn – Musa Dikwa

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, 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.