According Premium Time, Two Islamic organisations were offered $3million by the past administration to secure their members support the re-election of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, an official has said.
Abdullahi Shuaib, the Coordinator of the Conference of Islamic Organisations, CIO, stated this on Saturday at the 22nd National Islamic Training Programme NITP, held at Odosengolu near Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State.
Mr. Shuaib said the CIO and The Muslim
Congress, TMC, rejected the money after they
were offered under the label of “religious fund.”
“It is not a secret, they came, offering us over $3
million,” he said. “We said no….It came through
their proxies to us and we said no. And today we
have been vindicated.”
Mr. Shuaib, who is also the Executive Director/
CEO, Zakat and Sadaqat foundation, an arm of
TMC, added that “it is not even part of our own
culture to take bribe. We prefer to go hungry
than to collect a bribe from somebody and then
eat what is unlawful”.
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