The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) says the tactics employed by the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) to gain its approval by using some impostors as Bishops and pastors during its unveiling of Kasim Shettima as the party’s vice-presidential candidates will not make it change its stand on Muslim-Muslim ticket.
The Christian body in a statement via its vice president, who presides over about 19 Northern States and Abuja, Rev. Joseph John Hayab had dissociated itself from the fake Bishops whom the party claimed attended the ceremony.
In the same vein, Adebayo Oladeji, Special Assistant on Media and Communication to the President of CAN, Samson Ayokunle, while reacting to the development while fielding questions from journalists in Abuja challenged APC to mention the names of the Bishops who were at the unveiling of its VP candidate.
He words: “Let them name the CAN officials at the programme and their offices. If they could use 2017 photos to claim that some Pastors visited Shettima and lied that Pastor E. A Adeboye has endorsed them, they could do anything.
“Our position on Muslim-Muslim ticket is irreversible. Anybody can claim anything but one thing is clear, CAN was not part of the unveiling programme of Shettima.”
“Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was free to “hire mechanics and other artisans and sew clerical garments for them”, that effort would only add to their many ropes but would not change the need for fairness and justice, Hayab had earlier said in his reaction.
“The people we saw at the unveiling of Shettima paraded as Bishops are people who did not have enough time to learn how to wear Bishop garments. Take a closer look at their photo and you will see another Nollywood movie.
He added: “CAN wonders why the desperation. First, a story was out claiming to have come from the Chairman of CAN Borno state only to be refuted. Secondly, there was another lie that BAT (Bola Ahmed Tinubu) and his running mate were on their way to meet CAN President one night. A meeting that was not true and was on a night that the CAN President was in Alabama USA attending the Baptist World Alliance Conference of which he is the Vice President.
“Another desperation story was that they met Papa Adeboye which the RCCG later refuted. If Christians are not important, why the desperation?
“BAT is free to hire mechanics and other artisans and sew clerical garments for them. An effort that will only add to their many ropes when the political exercise is over but will not change the need for fairness and justice that CAN is calling for.
“CAN appreciates that we are in a democracy, no need to do funny and dubious things just to prove a point because it will at the end bounce back.
“The BAT team should simply do what is right and stop the drama.”