The National Christian Elders Forum, NCEF, led by a former Minister of Defence, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Danjuma, retd. and Solomon Asemota, SAN, has condemned the visit by members of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, to President Muhammadu Buhari insisting it was not on behalf of Christians.
The group described the visit as “subjudice, morally and spiritually reprehensible.”
Recall that members of the CAN led by its President, Rev. Sampson Ayokunle, had paid a “congratulatory” visit to Buhari on his purported victory in the 2019 general elections last week.
NCEF, in a statement signed by its chairman, Asemota, accused Ayokunle of running the Christian body as an extension of the All Progressives Congress.
“From the ill-advised congratulatory visit to President Buhari, it should be clear to every Christian of good conscience that the President of CAN, Rev. Sampson Ayokunle is running CAN as an appendage of the All Progressives Congress,” the statement said.
In the statement titled, ‘Not on our behalf, CAN President, Not on our behalf,’ the elders queried the rationale for the visit as the determination of who won the 2019 general election “is still in court.”
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It said, “It is therefore premature and presumptuous for anyone to congratulate President Buhari for “winning” an election that is contested in court. The NCEF wishes to state that the congratulatory visit to Aso Villa by CAN could not be in the interest of Nigerian Christians who daily bear the agony of thousands of their brethren being killed, maimed, displaced and marginalised in the jihad launched in the northern parts of the country.
“It is well known the indifference of the Buhari administration to the murder of Christians all over the country. This indifference has led many, including foreign observers, to conclude that the Buhari administration is complicit in the genocide that is taking place in Nigeria.”
The elders said the action of the CAN President was a further confirmation of all their protests and petitions in 2018, querying his faithfulness to Christ and to His Church.
