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Shettima’s Unveiling: Stop Impersonating Us, CAN Warns Politicians

July 22, 2022
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Shettima’s Unveiling: Stop Impersonating Us, CAN Warns Politicians
Shettima’s Unveiling: Stop Impersonating Us, CAN Warns Politicians

 

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 were ‘unknown clerics’.

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CAN’s General Secretary, Barrister Joseph Bade Daramola, stated on Thursday that the Christian body was shocked to witness how desperate politicians have become in their bid to rise to power, come 2023.

According to the statement: “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?”

CAN said: “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,” Barrister Daramola declared in a brief communique.

CAN then asked political parties not to ignore “religious sensibilities and sensibilities of the people especially in today’s Nigeria when Christians are becoming endangered species as the days roll by.

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

The ecumenical body also noted that at the fullness of time, it will direct its members nationwide on how to use their PVCs come 2023.

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