We did not bribe pastors with N6bn to campaign for Jonathan – PDP

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has declared that it did offer a bribe of N6bn to some Christian leaders for the purpose of helping President Goodluck Jonathan win the February 14 presidential election. The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh, stated this at a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday.

Metuh was reacting to a recent claim by the Director General of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation, Rotimi Amaechi that the ruling party had bribed a group of clergy men with N6bn to campaign for president Jonathan.
Metuh said, “Pastors are revered people and to bring their character into disrepute is a sin before God. We do not think anybody, let alone somebody who is a Christian, can make such a statement.

“We challenge the Director General of the APC to name such pastors and where the money is coming from.
“This attack is capable of bringing Christians and Muslims into a major disagreement and major dispute. If truly the person who issued this statement is a Catholic as he said, we are asking him to go for confession”.