By Lola Idahosa,Kaduna
The Borno State-born-pastor, Kallamu Musa-Dikwa, who accused Christian Association of Nigeria(CAN) of collecting N7bn from President Goodluck Jonathan to campaign against the APC Presidential candidate, Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd) in the rescheduled March election has raised the alarm operatives of the Directorate of State Security (DSS)are after his life.
While still insisting that the Christian body collected the said amount, Dikwa said the DSS had forced him to sign a document which they would use against him to show the entire world that “the President(Jonathan) did not bribe CAN to work against the Presidential candidate of the APC.”
He said the DSS planned to use the ‘document’ which he signed under duress in some national dailies to portray him as telling lies against the body of Christ.
“They forced me to sign and promised to link me up with the CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor for us to ‘settle’,” he said
The cleric noted that all these, were in addition to plea from other Christian leaders, especially, the Abuja CAN Chairman for him to say that the Christian body never collected the said amoun(N7bn).
The cleric in Kaduna on Thursday told a select journalists that after the DSS had treated him like a “common criminal,” they(DSS) forced him to sign a document denying what he had said was untrue.
According to him, since he broke the news to Nigerians on how the Christian body collected N7bn to work against the APC presidential candidate from President Goodluck Jonathan, his life has been under threat.
Dikwa explained that as soon as he finished addressing newsmen on the alleged money collected by the CAN, the DSS invited him to their headquarters in Abuja and asked that he denied that CAN did not collect a kobo from Jonathan.
The cleric said, “The DSS invited me to their office in Abuja. They wanted to know who gave me information that CAN collected N7bn from Jonathan and I told them.
“They said all those I mentioned will be invited and told them to go ahead and invite them. I even told them how the money was distributed.
“They also said they wanted to know whether the opposition All Progressives Party(APC) are the one sponsoring me to tarnish the image of the CAN and mentioned Sam Nda Isaiah(Publisher of the Leadership newspapers) and I told them my relationship with him is not political because since 2006, I have been with him. I told them, he(Sam) does not know anything about my revelation on the said money.
“They also ask what was my connection with the APC presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd)and Governor Rotimi Amaechi and I told them there is nothing that connects us. I told them whatever I said was done for the love of my country.
“After sometime, they went and drafted a letter which says ‘I Pastor Musa…’the information I gave that president gave CAN money was false and that I won’t do that again.
“They said I should copy what they wrote in my own hand writing. I have to do it because I was alone with them and I feel they could harm me and frame me up.
“They forced me to sign after writing what they drafted. I wanted to refuse but I fear for my life.”
Dikwa further added that the DSS promised to link him up with the CAN national president if he carried out their bidding of telling the whole world that I lied.
“They(DSS) promise to link me up with the CAN President so that we can sit down and discuss.
“And this was the same promise the Abuja CAN Chairman gave me that if I go back to the press(journalists) and denounce (and say) that CAN didn’t receive any money from the president,they will take me to John Kennedy(Chairman, Christian Pilgrim) for settlement.”
