As controversy over the closure of the children’s wing of the Villa Chapel located inside Nigeria’s presidential quarters rages on, DAILY POST has uncovered fresh facts on the matter.

On Sunday, our correspondent was given an insight into the power play that has been going on inside the villa for weeks by Borno-based Pastor, Kallamu Musa Dikwa.

Dikwa, it could be re-called made the allegation that President Goodluck Jonathan gave the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) the sum of N7billion to support his re-election bid.

The Pastor, who is also Executive Director, Voice of Northern Christian Movement, made the disclosure following an earlier allegation by Rivers State ex-Governor Rotimi Amaechi that CAN received N6billion.

In a chat with DAILY POST on the Villa Chapel saga, he expressed dismay that President Muhammadu Buhari was yet to act on the fate of the children’s church despite the nationwide outcry.

Earlier in the month, presidential adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina denied the closure of the church by tweeting photos from service held on Sunday, September 6, 2015.

A tweet via his handle, @FemAdesina said: “President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) orders Aso Villa Chapel shut? There is no such thing. It’s only a rumour spawned by fecund imagination gone into overdrive. PMB respects freedom of worship.”

However, speaking, Musa Dikwa challenged the presidency to also release most recent photos of the children’s church.

“Let them not deceive Nigerians. I can confirm to you that that section of the church has been converted to a storage room by Mrs. Aisha Buhari, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari.

“I don’t want to think that the President authorized her action, Nevertheless, he should have done something by now because it is a serious matter.”

Asked to state what items were being kept at the building, he responded: “I really don’t know, but I was reliably informed that she brought some items to the villa and could not get a place to keep them.

“To our dismay, she directed some staff to move the items inside the children’s church and then ordered it locked. The security operatives that initially blocked its entrance did so with her knowledge and I dare her to publicly deny.

“What my source told me is that Mrs Buhari said the children’s church is a safer place to keep the items. This is not right. Why would she insist on that particular building in a place as big as the villa? Is she saying there is no other safe place apart from a place of worship?”

The media had reported that due to the shut, the kids now use the office of the Chaplain, Pastor Joseph Sheyi Malomo, for their normal service.

But Musa Dikwa, called on Buhari to take action immediately to forestall disunity among Christian and Muslim communities in Nigeria.

“He promised to unite Nigeria; he promised not to marginalize any religion but what is going on inside Aso Rock is different.

“People like me that were security risks for throwing our weight behind President Buhari are now at risk again because of this action of his wife.

“I have lost count of the number of calls I have received since the news concerning the children’s church broke out. While some are threatening me, some are mocking me that I and others endorsed Buhari who seemed to have turned blind eye to this act.

“They are saying ‘see the man you said will bring change, are you seeing what is happening now. We hope you are satisfied. After all, we warned you but you didn’t heed our advise.'”

Continuing, the cleric recalled how he told the world that President Jonathan gave CAN N7billion.

“It is because we were tired of the corruption going on; we believed in the change mantra. So you can guess what I am going through in the hands of those who alleged that Buhari had a hidden Islamic agenda”, he added.

Musa Dikwa said he, however, believes Buhari will call his wife to order to avoid further damage.

He urged the president to remember the vow he made to Christian leaders he met before the presidential election in March.

The cleric further cautioned Buhari against punishing Christians for the refusal of CAN to grant him audience after he made the request in the build-up to the general polls.

“CAN is a body of Christian leaders, but it doesn’t even form 0.1 percent of the entire Christian community in the country.

“Besides, I have the document containing his own statement. He gave clear assurances and we will hold him by his words because no religion is greater than the other,” Musa Dikwa declared.

Mr. Adesina did not take the call by our correspondent, even as he was yet to respond to a text message to confirm the true state of the children’s church as at the time of filing this report.

Source: http://dailypost.ng/2015/09/21/how-aisha-buhari-ordered-closure-of-villa-chapel-childrens-church/

But why? Next will be the Aso Rock Chapel.

This sounds more truthful..

Well I can't blame the woman, their religion does not recognize others with diff view of life..

A religion of 'piss' it's called..

As someone said.
A good muslim is a land mine waiting to explode..

Could be a Cooked up story.....waiting for Aisha Buhari to respond before making further statement

lalastical do the needful.

This is getting very Interesting ......

“To our dismay, she directed some staff to move the items inside the children’s church and then ordered it locked. The security operatives that initially blocked its entrance did so with her knowledge and [size=18pt]I dare[/size] her to publicly deny.

I believe Aisha Buhari is alive to respond appropriately. Her failure to do so only confirms the allegation against her and she officially becomes the number one persecutor of Nigeria Christian community. Our leaders irrespective of religion MUST be careful with their conduct

Ok

Since the presidency is yet to provide the recent photo of the children church, Musa Dikwa should kindly inform his source to provide the recent photo so that he can show it to all Nigerians.
Mrs Aisha Or her aides should tell us what is really happening if true or false.

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And the

How can any thinking person not know that Buhari's first allegiance is to Islam. Second to Fulani-hausas and lastly to Nigeria.

Hmm it only takes time but some Muslims can't hide their disregard for other religions..imagine if a children islamic class has being rumored to be shutdown...some people would have being killed in riots in d. North...Pls PMB and his wife should come out and publicly say what's going on...

She's the wife of a terrorist! Advocate of the religion of piss!

menix:
This sounds more truthful..

Well I can't blame the woman, their religion does not recognize others with diff view of life..

A religion of 'piss' it's called..

As someone said.
A good muslim is a land mine waiting to explode..

Followers of your religion were seen destroying shrines in a show of non-tolerance in the Eastern part of Nigeria few months ago, what's your take?

stinggy:

Followers of your religion were seen destroying shrines in a show of non-tolerance in the Eastern part of Nigeria few months ago, what's your take?

Note, u can't destroy a shrine if it followers have not authorised that else there would b scuffle.
Sure u never saw where it was mentioned they fought or had misunderstanding.

Buh if it's otherwise, kindly post it here to discredit me.

TonyeBarcanista:

I believe Aisha Buhari is alive to respond appropriately. Her failure to do so only confirms the allegation against her and she officially becomes the number one persecutor of Nigeria Christian community. Our leaders irrespective of religion MUST be careful with their conduct

Imiebam tonye! But the said pastor didn't see all these things before going out of his way to rubbish gej administration

peleson:

Imiebam tonye! But the said pastor didn't see all these things before going out of his way to rubbish gej administration

I've not taken side yet. The response of Aisha or any of her team will help one form opinion.

Kai

menix:


Note, u can't destroy a shrine if it followers have not authorised that else there would b scuffle.
Sure u never saw where it was mentioned they fought or had misunderstanding.

Buh if it's otherwise, kindly post it here to discredit me.

There are some with authorization but so many others had been carried out without authorization.
Below is one of the many:

SAMUEL Nwankwo drove past a mob in the southeastern Nigerian town of Umuoji unaware that it was heading to attack his home.

As the chief priest of a traditional religion in the area, he’d become a target of a crowd of Christian youths who left a revival meeting where several preachers condemned the veneration of ancestral gods. They were bent on eradicating all symbols of such worship in the town of about 30,000 people.

“They ransacked the Udume Abor shrine where we worshiped, then went to my house where they took religious objects and burned them,” Nwankwo, a 45-year-old former Christian pastor, said in an interview. “The entire house would have burned if neighbors didn’t put out the fire.”

While Islamist militants loyal to Boko Haram in northern Nigeria and Islamic State in Syria destroy cultural sites they consider idolatrous, some Christian activists in the south of Africa’s most populous nation are also targeting ancestral religious worship. So far no one has been injured in the raids.

More than 500 traditional-worship sites, mainly in the south, have been burned down in the past decade, along with artifacts that are often hundreds of years old and of historical significance, according to Emeka Uzoatu, a researcher affiliated to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, in the south east.

Read more here; http://m.mgafrica.com/article/2015-05-23-nigerias-christians-borrow-boko-haram-tactics-destroy-traditional-african-religious-shrines-and-art?utm_content=buffer6f315&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer#.Vf-31zhMXHw

I can remember how bigots here on NL were rejoicing at the news that very day.

TonyeBarcanista:

I believe Aisha Buhari is alive to respond appropriately. Her failure to do so only confirms the allegation against her and she officially becomes the number one persecutor of Nigeria Christian community. Our leaders irrespective of religion MUST be careful with their conduct

you talk well here.....but am very sure within the next few minutes u go mis yarn

I am happy all these things are happening! We warned them.

PMB!
Call your wife to order!
Women and power sha?
I've always wondered why they love abusing it!

[size=13pt]Pastor Dikwa, you are here flexing muscles on Children's Church in Aso Villa while Christians are being massacred all over the north in a systematic elimination strategy to wipe out Christianity in the Fulani fiefdoms.

Farmers are beheaded daily, they are using knives to slit pregnant women's bellies, children are chopped into pieces, churches burnt in broad daylight without any protection by the 'owners' of the country whom you passionately supported

When are you going to make use of your closeness to these people and appeal to them to stop the massacre?[/size]

stinggy:

There are some with authorization but so many others had been carried out without authorization.
Below is one of the many:




Read more here; http://m.mgafrica.com/article/2015-05-23-nigerias-christians-borrow-boko-haram-tactics-destroy-traditional-african-religious-shrines-and-art?utm_content=buffer6f315&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer#.Vf-31zhMXHw

I can remember how bigots here on NL were rejoicing at the news that very day.

Journalism is all about hearing frm both side and balancing ur story.

The above story ain't balanced, cous I know of issues wen human rituals in some shrines have led to destruction of such shrines by the community..


As a christian I can tell u, any congregation that leaves its church premises to perpetrate destruction or killing is not a church but a Cult house disguising as church..

But when my grand father's tummy was torn open in kaduna, it was immediately they left the premises of the mosque they started killing..
Except u will prove to me some mosques are as well not mosque but cult home.

1st Lady don Start!!!! This one fit beat paitence popularity

Is it not same Villa Yaradua lived in for 3 years.

this family has Bigotry in them

May Jesus forgive her.

Evil witch

Wetin she 1 go do their Dan to close it...nice one