NUMEROUS media reports have surfaced indicating that the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) got N7 billion to enlist pastors to endorse President Goodluck Jonathan and campaign against the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), in the coming presidential election. The reports came in bits, and on the heels of an earlier allegation by the Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, who announced that President Jonathan had paid some pastors N6 billion to aid his bid to retain the office he is currently occupying.
With the presidential election on the horizon, it is quite easy to conclude that politicians are ready to rekindle their primordial instincts and if one adds these allegations to the already established climate that favours, condones, glamorises and promotes corruption, the harmful consequences of the allegations become very clear. In this shameful time, political games in Aso Rock seem to be attracting more attention than political substance.
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