Plateau CAN to inaugurate new officials

The newly elected officials of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) will be inaugurated during its National Executive meeting slated for 19th and 20th of June, 2016.

The inauguration is coming after a successful CAN election held in June 2016, to elect new officials consisting also of a new CAN President.

Rev. Samson Olasupo Adeniyi Ayokunle, who emerged as the new president of CAN after the election, is coming from the background of the Nigerian Baptist Convention (NBC) and candidate of the Christian Council of Nigeria (CCN).

However, the candidate from the North, known as the TEKAN/ECWA Bloc, Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Gado and presently the President of the Evangelical Church Winning All  (ECWA), who was supposed to be part of the election, had instituted a legal action challenging the election of Ayokunle as the President elect of CAN.

But the counsel to CAN, Barrister Edwin O. Okoro Esq, has dismissed it as laughable saying that there is no legal impediment that will restrained the

Okoro, while speaking to Daily Times in Jos on Sunday, disclosed that there is no legal process before the court against the elections of the new National leadership of CAN.

Said he: “As I’m talking to you now there is no valid legal process in court to stop the swearing-In of the President elect of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN)”.

He said the Plaintiff’s application to stop the CAN elections was refused in the Federal High Court, FCT Abuja, on the 9th of June, 2016.

However, the outgoing CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor together with other leaders of the association, had been holding meetings in Abuja to ensure that the crisis in the Christian body is settled out of court.

Consequently, the CAN National Youth President, Engr. Daniel Kadzai, has called on all aggrieved faction to bury their differences and work for the common goal of the association.

Kadzai called on all CAN members to emulate the foot prints that will be left behind by the outgoing CAN President, Pastor Oritsejafor.

He said Oritsejafor has worked tirelessly to give Christians a voice against oppression and what should be expected from every CAN member is to sustain this good work.

He said those criticising Oritsejafor are doing so out of ignorant, stating that the problem of Christians are within, characterised with sectionalism and lack of proper understanding of the scripture.

Kadzai, however, said that those agitating for the cancellation of the election are not CAN members.