The Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has alleged
that the Peoples Democratic Party bribed some Christian
religious leaders with N6bn to campaign against the All
Progressives Congress and its presidential candidate, Maj.
Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).
Amaechi said that the religious leaders had been circulating
documents to convince Nigerians that the APC and Buhari
would islamise Nigeria if voted into power on February 14.
He told a crowd at the state APC governorship rally in
Emohua that the PDP ought to know that Nigerians were too
enlightened for any political party or an individual to make
the country a Muslim nation.
The governor, who is also the Director-General of Buhari
Presidential Campaign Organisation, therefore advised the
religious leaders, whom he accused of commercialising the
Christian faith, to return the bribe money to the Federal
Government.
He said, “Some pastors collected N6bn and they are
circulating document and telling you not to vote for an
Hausa man; not to vote for a Muslim; that they want to
Islamise Nigeria. Tell them to return our N6bn.
“They gave them N6bn; they should return it to the Federal
Government coffers. They will tell you that Buhari wants to
Islamise Nigeria; tell them we are too educated.
“I am a Catholic, but no Catholic priest has told me that
story right now in the Catholic Church because, I will ask
him how. If any pastor tells you that, tell him to return the
money.
“Nobody can Islamise Nigeria; they have commercialised
Jesus Christ. They should stop commercialising the
Christian faith. You know what Jesus Christ did in the
temple? He chased them away.
“We shall chase away those pastors who have collected
money from the PDP to tell us lies. We shall chase them
away on behalf of Christ.”
The governor described the election in the state as a
referendum between him and President Goodluck Jonathan,
whom he challenged to show Rivers people what he had
done for them.
“I told the President that the election in Rivers State is a
referendum between him and myself. I told him anywhere I
go, I will show what I have done. Let him show what he has
done,” Amaechi stressed.
The national leadership of the PDP described the allegation
by Amaechi as a “crime against God.”
“It is also a crime to the Church and Christianity. It is an
insult on Christianity. To say that pastors are paid to
support the President is height of recklessness. Such
allegation is despicable and should be condemned. There
was nothing like that from us as a party and there was
nothing like that from our candidate,” its National Publicity
Secretary, Olisa Metuh, added.
Reacting, the state Assistant Publicity Secretary of the PDP,
Samuel Nwanosike, challenged Amaechi, to name the
pastors that collected the N6bn.
Nwanosike argued that the allegation was an indication that
the governor had conceded defeat to Jonathan.
He said, “It shows clearly that Governor Amaechi has
conceded defeat and that Dr. Jonathan has what it takes to
continue as the President of this country.”
In his remark at the rally, the APC governorship candidate in
the state, Dakuku Peterside, said that if voted into power on
February 28, he would complete all projects embarked upon
by the Amaechi government.
The candidate also promised to combat insecurity in the
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