General Overseer of Living Faith Worldwide aka Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo
Barely one year after his allegation that ex-President Goodluck
Jonathan, allegedly gave out N7 billion to the leadership of the
Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and Pentecostal Fellowship off
Nigeria (PFN), to facilitate and support his reelection, controversial
Pastor and Executive Director of the Voice of Northern Christian
Movement (VNCM), Kallamu Musa Dikwa, has eaten his words by saying that
he lied.
Specifically, he apologised to the President of CAN, Pastor Ayo
Oritsejafor; General Overseer of Living Faith Worldwide aka Winners
Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo and Secretary, National Christian Elders
Forum (NCEF), Pastor Bosun Emmanuel.
Bosun Emmanuel said: “It would be recalled that during the
electioneering campaign leading to the 2015 elections, Musa Dikwa
addressed a press conference in which he claimed three ministers of the
gospel, the President of CAN (Pritsejafor), Bishop David Oyedepo and
myself (Pastor Bosun Emmanuel) received N7 billion from the Jonathan
administration to mobilise ministers of the gospel nationwide to
campaign for his re-election.
“The story was started by the former governor of Rivers State,
Rotimi Amaechi who claimed the sum of N6 billion was given to pastors to
campaign for Jonathan’s re-election. It was the story of Amaechi that
Musa Dikwa latched on to and insisted that it was not N6 billion but N7
billion and proceeded to mention the names of the three ministers of the
gospel. As we could recall, Rotimi Amaechi was the Director of the
Campaign for the election of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
candidate, now President Muhammadu Buhari.
“We met Musa Dikwa personally in Jos on Wednesday 12th August,
2015. I sat directly facing him for almost three hours and Musa Dikwa
did not know he was talking to the pastor he lied against. We were
interested in finding out, “were you there when the money was being
shared”? No, he was not.
“Was the money shared in Naira?” “No, it was in dollars”. It
was the conversion that made it N7b. “So, if you were not there, how did
you know money was being shared and the purpose for which it was
shared?” He was informed by a CAN official in Abuja who told him to come
quickly and collect his own share.
“Ironically, the CAN official Musa Dikwa mentioned as the
informant was also one of the people who got Musa Dikwa arrested by DSS
for carrying unsubstantiated story, and the same man is also one of the
five respondents in the N300 million suit of Musa Dikwa against
Department of States Services (DSS). (He gave us photocopies) The big
question is, if the man Musa mentioned as the source of the N7 billion
Naira story is truly the source, why would the same man invite DSS to
arrest him, and why would Musa join the man as a respondent in a N300
million lawsuit? Musa Dikwa claimed that the DSS violated his Human
Rights by arresting him.
“Now, see who is heading for court? What right does he have to
complain of the violation of his rights? What if I should sue Musa Dikwa
N500 million for defamation of character?
“Anyway, he apologised for including the name of Pastor Bosun
Emmanuel in the story and even assured us that he would call another
Press Conference to clear Pastor Bosun. So far, he has not done that.
The implication is that even the inclusion of CAN President and Bishop
Oyedepo in the campaign of calumny could also be false.
“The following day, 13th August, 2015, Musa came again to meet
us at our lodging and disclosed the name of the person who specifically
instructed him to include my name. He mentioned the name of one of the
APC Pastors based in Lagos. So it became clear what happened. My name
was included to discredit the WAKE UP CALL CD, while, (I think) Bishop
Oyedepo was included because he came out openly to declare support for
Jonathan and the President of CAN was mentioned to divide the church. It
was a classical APC campaign by deception.
“It is not impossible that some clerics collected money to
campaign for politicians on both sides during the elections. That could
have happened amongst Muslim clerics and Christian clergy. But, this N7
billion story is hogwash. I can say categorically that I have never
collected a kobo from a politician or government official in my life to
do Christian ministry. Musa Dikwa LIED against me, but thank God, he
confessed.
“For now, I will allow the issue to rest and I will encourage
Musa Dikwa to remember all the admonitions and counsel that ministers of
the gospel gave him during the meeting. A member of the body cannot be
doing injury to the body. Peddling false information is not a Christian
virtue.”
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