Stop acting like PR firm of the PDP, Christian group tells CAN
The Concerned Christian Forum has
urged the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to stop ridiculing the
Christian faith with its political utterances.
Addressing journalists in Abuja,
national coordinator of the group, Elder. James Amedu said any attempt to
politicize Christendom in the days leading to the 2019 election should be
resisted.
Amedu accused the CAN of delving
into politics and issuing utterances that run contrary to the Christian creed.
He said something of the utterance depicts the CAN as working for the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP).
According to him, some of the CAN
leaders have desecrating their pulpits by campaigning for certain candidates
under the pretext that they are relaying God’s voice.
He said they should desist from
abusing their position to muddle the waters by making their own political
convictions to appear as something coming from their spirituality.
He said, "We will like to
refresh memories to this time four years ago on the approach to the 2015
General Elections. It was a period that the Christian faith was ridiculed
repeatedly because the then CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, reduced the
association into the outsourced PR firm of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Things got so bad that CAN was practically dragged into a gun running scandal
in South-Africa."
He said many Nigerians are burdened
that Christendom is being politicised in the country by the leadership of CAN.
He said, "thee current CAN
President, Rev Dr Samson Olasupo A. Ayokunle, would have sought direction from
Holy Spirit before again dragging the association into politics.
"we made this assertion for the
following reasons: The reactions from the public discourse space is that Rev Dr
Samson Olasupo A. Ayokunle and the team that visited President Buhari are
playing “approach the highest bidder” game in which they are making themselves
visible as a force to reckon with so that the PDP candidate, Atiku Abubakar can
approach them with his monetary bid to take sides with him. This is most
unfortunate as CAN is rapidly being dragged back to the Oritsejafor era with
all the damages likely to be done to the Christian Faith.
"The CAN team overreached
itself and plodded into territories with which it is not familiar. They, for
instance, asked that Col Sambo Dasuki (rtd) and Leader of the Shiites, Malam
Ibrahim El-Zakzaky should be released from detention. People are now asking if
CAN leaders are supportive of the kind of theft that Dasuki engaged in or that
they are continuing the legacy of the immediate past leadership of CAN, which
was unclothed in bed withb Dasuki.
"The aspect of the security
chiefs having overstayed their welcome is one that we find dangerous because of
how it can be interpreted to cause the collapse of Christendom should the same
be applied to us. Let us not forget that there is a Corporate Governance Code
by the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria that was issued on October 17,
2016 which would have ended the eternal tenure of some those that are making
this call. They found it outrageous that they could be told to serve limited
term yet they are accusing Service Chiefs of having overstayed their tenure
when they have not been four years in office. It will be interesting to see how
the CAN leadership will react if the Corporate Governance Code is applied to
confirm they have overstayed their own tenure in their various churches.
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