PDP
has debunked the allegation… Amaechi provide evidence
PDP has described the baseless
the allegations by Rivers state governor Rotimi Amaechi that the party bribed
men of God with a whopping sum of N6bn to blackmail the APC Presidential
candidate Maj. Gen M Buahri
Punch reports…
The national leadership of the
Peoples Democratic Party said it did not offer a bribe of N6bn to some
Christian leaders for the purpose of helping President Goodluck Jonathan to win
the February 14 presidential election.
The PDP’s National Publicity
Secretary, Mr. Olisa Metuh, who spoke at a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday,
said the party was alarmed about the allegation, which was made by the Director
General of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation,
Rotimi Amaechi.
Amaechi, who is also the Governor
of Rivers State, had accused the ruling party of bribing a group of clergy men
with N6bn.
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.”
Metuh also accused the
Independent National Electoral Commission of conniving with the APC to deny
non-indigenes in Lagos State their Permanent Voter Cards.
According to him, the PVCs
belonging to the PDP supporters were being burnt in some states, and that the
party had reported the matter to the electoral body.
Metuh said, “This has never
happened before but we don’t know why the APC is doing such; may be because we
have a credible presidential candidate and may be because we have a credible
governorship candidate in Lagos State.
“We have the records and we are
asking the non-indigenes involved that if by Friday, INEC still do not give
them their PVCs, we will take a decisive action.
“We know that 90 per cent of
these non-indigenes are supporters of the PDP. This is part of the APC Janjaweed
ideology to truncate democracy in this country.
“The APC have been saying they
were on top of the election, but now that it is obvious that PDP is on top,
that President Goodluck Jonathan will win the election, they have resorted to
causing mayhem.”
Metuh also denied that some PDP
governors were trying to defect to the APC, arguing that the PDP governors had
been participating in the party’s nationwide presidential campaigns.
Source: PUNCH
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