‘Stop impersonating us’, CAN warns politicians

By Lateef Ibrahim, Abuja

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has dissociated itself from the unveiling of the vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Kashim Shettima, saying those who were presented as church leaders are ‘unknown clerics’.

The Association said this in a statement yesterday by its General Secretary, 

Barrister Joseph Bade Daramola in Abuja.

The umbrella body for the nation’s christians said that it is shocked, disappointed and worried about the desperation of some politicians who once claimed Christians do not matter in governance and politics who went to hire some unknown ‘bishops, pastors and priests’ to impersonate the leadership of CAN in their political meeting. 

This, CAN categorically declared, is totally unacceptable, reprehensible, unprecedented and ungodly. 

The Association however said that it is  throwing  the principals and sponsors  act into the court of conscience. 

According to the statement by CAN, “We are shocked, disappointed and worried about the desperation of some politicians who once claimed Christians do not matter in governance and politics who went to hire some unknown ‘bishops, pastors and priests’ to impersonate the leadership of CAN in their political meeting. 

“This is totally unacceptable, reprehensible, unprecedented and ungodly. If they are saying Christians have no electoral values why impersonating them in their meetings?

“We are throwing  their principals and sponsors  into the court of conscience. “These actions  of theirs have shown who they are to the public and what they are capable of doing to us all.

“We are asking political parties not to ignore religious sensibilities and sensibilities of the people especially in today’s Nigeria when Christians are becoming endangered species daily. 

“Our quest is within the constitutional requirements and ignoring it is akin to trampling on the Constitution especially the Federal Character Act”.