The Archbishop of the Metropolitan See of Lagos, Dr. Adewale Martins,
has ruled out involvement of Catholic Church in the alleged N6 billion
bribe given to some Christian leaders to campaign against the All
Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, General
Muhammadu Buhari.
Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, recently made the allegation at a political rally that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) bribed some Christian leaders with N6 billion to campaign against the APC and its presidential candidate.
Amaechi said the Chritian leaders had been circulating documents to convince Nigerians that the APC and Buhari would Islamise the country if voted into power.
Reacting to the allegation during a press conference, organised by the church to celebrate this year’s Valentine Day at the weekend in Lagos, the Catholic archbishop said the church should be exonerated from the bribery allegation because it had not endorsed any political candidate or party.
“If any Christian leader collected money to adopt, campaign for or against any political candidate, please count us out, we are not part of it.
“Catholic Church does not have any political candidate, we are apolitical. We neither endorse, campaign for nor campaign against any political candidate.
“In our church, all our campaigns have been on principle of good governance. The church is part of the society and we cannot close our eyes to what is happening in our society.
“People should vote according to their conscience, based on the track record, performance and achievement of the contestants, and not religion or ethnicity,” he said.
He urged Nigerians to pray for the country and the success of the forthcoming polls.
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