CAN received N7bn bribe~ Borno pastor insist

Borno State-based pastor, Kallamu Musa-Dikwa, who accused the
Christians Association of Nigeria of collecting N7bn bribe from
President Goodluck Jonathan to campaign against the All Progressives
Congress Presidential candidate in the March 28 election, has insisted
that the CAN collected the said amount.
Musa-Dikwa on Monday in Kaduna insisted that the Jonathan government
gave CAN N7bn to campaign against the APC candidate, Maj. Gen
Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).
He however said that neither Jonathan nor Buhari was fit to govern the country.
The cleric said CAN collected N7bn from Jonathan and not N6bn as
alleged by the Rivers State governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, who is also
the Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation.
Amaechi had alleged that unnamed leaders of the Peoples Democratic
Party paid N6bn to Christian clerics to campaign against the APC. The
allegation has caused uproar among the Christian community, with the
Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria and the Northern State Christian
Elders Forum asking Amaechi to name the church leaders who collected
the N6bn.
But reacting to the challenge by the Northern States Christian Elders
Forum, Dikwa, who is the Executive Director of the Voice of Northern
Christian Movement, had told journalists in Kaduna last Thursday that
the said money was channelled through CAN.
He said the Christians body got N7bn on January 26, 2015 and disbursed
N3m each to state chairmen of the CAN across the country.
Dikwa, who was an Associate Pastor with the E. Y. N. Church
(Enklesiyan Yan'uwan A Nijeriya) Farm Centre, Dikwa Road, Maiduguri,
Borno State, under Rev. Emmanuel Kwajihe between 2002-2004, said the
CAN had started threatening Christians in Borno that they must
re-elect President Jonathan in the rescheduled election.
He said that he fell out with the national body of CAN when sometimes
in 2013 some clerics from the United States (Christians Association of
Nigeria-Americans) visited Nigeria and donated the sum of $50,000 to
the victims of the Boko Haram violence in Borno State.
He explained that rather than disbursing the money to serve the
purpose for which it was meant, CAN merely gave the victims a paltry
N100,000.
The cleric added that when he asked the leadership of the body about
the $50,000 for the victims, they became furious.
"This was the beginning of our disagreement with the national body of
CAN," he said.
On the alleged N7bn bribe money, Musa-Dikwa, who played a recorded
audio of someone confirming that CAN had collected the money before
members of the Correspondents' Chapel of the Kaduna Council of the
Nigeria Union of Journalists in Kaduna on Tuesday, said that when
Amaechi first accused the clerics of collecting bribe to campaign
against the Buhari candidacy, "I text (message) to the leadership of
the CAN to repent or be exposed."
He said since he opened the can of worms, he had received several
threat messages from yet-to-be identified persons, who claimed that "I
am against Christians and working for the All Progressives Congress
presidential candidate."
Dikwa said it was untrue that he was working for Buhari.
He also added that since the revelation, many of the CAN leaders had
called him to confirm that the allegation was true and that they
indeed collected the money (N7bn) and disbursed N3m to the state CAN
in the 36 states of the Federation.
He said an insider within CAN confirmed to him that the money was
collected on January 26, 2015.
He said, "There was no newspaper or news coverage of the disbursement
of the N7bn to CAN. A national officer of CAN confirmed to me that CAN
received the money and disbursed N3m to each state CAN.
"I sent text messages to the CAN leadership, asking them to repent
otherwise I will expose them. Nobody replied me. That is why I decided
to open up. Some people say that I am working for Buhari. It is not
true. I am not working for anybody. It is not today that I started
writing on Boko Haram. I stand for the truth. Boko Haram affects
everyone, Christians and Muslims."
"I am not working for anybody. I am standing for the truth. I am
standing for righteousness and for my people, whether Christians or
Muslims.
"I have always said that both President Goodluck Jonathan and Maj-Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari(retd) are not good for Nigeria. I am praying and I am
always telling the people that God will stop them (Jonathan and
Buhari)."
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