Pastors Were Given N7bn, Not N6bn To Vote For Jonathan – Cleric

There seems to be no end to the controversy surrounding 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, who weighed in on the controversy Thursday, said that the money that was disbursed to pastors by the president was actually N7bn and not N6bn as widely reported by Amaechi, who is also the Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation.

The Rivers governor had raised not a few eyebrows recently when he alleged that unnamed leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party paid N6bn to some pastors to campaign against Buhari and the APC.

The governor’s allegation caused a stir among Christian clerics, with the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria and the Northern State Christian Elders Forum asking Amaechi to mention names rather than make a sweeping allegation.