Four hundred clergymen shared money offered as bribe to the Christian Association of Nigeria by the Peoples Democratic Party to support President Goodluck Jonathan in the March 28 presidential election, the All Progressives Congress, Edo chapter claims.
The pastors mostly of the Pentecostal faith, received between with N50, 000 and N2 million.
APC in a statement released on Sunday by its spokesperson, Godwin Erhahon, said that an insider in the Christian body revealed to it over the weekend in Benin City how the money was shared.
Excerpts from the reads “over four hundred pastors in Edo State, majority of whom are of the Pentecostal churches, shared from the bribe with some of them getting between five hundred thousand and fifty thousand naira each.”
“A few others from the so-called super churches received as much as two million naira each because they claimed that their churches have more members.”
The statement also noted that the national leadership of CAN disbursed N4 billion to its branches, withholding N3 billion and left an instruction that Catholic churches be left out of the largesse from the PDP.