PDP:We did not give pastors N6bn bribe as some people alleged.

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.
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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.
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