Jonathan's N7Billion Bribe: 'I Lied Against Oritsejafor, Oyedepo' - 'Pastor' Dikwa Confessed; Begs For Forgiveness

Musa Dikwa

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Nearly a year after his allegation that former President Goodluck Jonathan, alleg­edly gave out N7 billion to the leadership of the Chris­tian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and Pentecostal Fel­lowship of Nigeria (PFN), to facilitate and support his re-election, controversial Pastor and Executive Direc­tor of the Voice of North­ern Christian Movement (VNCM), Kallamu Musa Dikwa, has eaten his words by apologising to the people he accused.

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.
Pastor Bosun Emmanuel shared his discussions with Musa Dikwa during an in­terview with Religious Af­fairs Correspondents on Thursday in Abuja.

Emmanuel’s narrated in parts: “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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Pastor Emmanuel also 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 (Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor), 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.