And the saga continues....Following the allegations and accusations by the All Progressives Congress, APC, that the Christian Association of Nigeria allegedly received money from the Peoples Democratic Party to support President Goodluck Jonathan in the March 28 presidential election, the Edo state chapter of the APC has elaborated more on the issue....
According to PremiumTimes, the party, in a statement on Sunday, said some of the pastors drawn mostly from the Pentecostal bloc of the association, got between N50, 000 and N2 million from the N7 billion CAN allegedly received from the PDP and Mr. Jonathan.It, however, praised the Edo State chairman of CAN, Peter Imasuen, for not participating in the sharing of the largesse.
A Borno-based pastor, Kallamu Musa-Dikwa, recently alleged that President Jonathan, who is also the candidate of the PDP for the March 28 election, gave the Christian body N7 billion to support him. The clergyman, a former associate pastor with E.Y.N. Church in Maiduguri, said the money was routed through the national secretariat of CAN, which in turn shared N3 million each to its state branches.
Mr. Musa-Dikwa, who is who is the Executive Director, Voice of Northern Christian Movement, spoke in Kaduna a few weeks after the Governor of Rivers State and Director General of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation, Chibuike Amaechi, said the pastors were given N6 billion to back Mr. Jonathan. The CAN has since denied the allegation.
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