Internal crisis: By Oritsejafor We Stand- CAN

Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor

Abuja: The leadership of the remaining bloc that forms the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) yesterday said that no amount of internal crisis could split the association.

CAN also said it has put in place appropriate mechanisms for the resolution of the issues in contention.

In its first major reaction to the alleged plan by the Catholic block to pull out of its fold, the leadership of CAN in a communiqué read to reporters in Abuja by the General Secretary, Dr. Musa Asaka, after a meeting of its President-in-Council (PIC), comprising all the blocks, appealed to the media to exhibit social responsibility for which they have been known in reporting the seeming crisis.

Against the backdrop of criticisms against CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, over his alleged romance with the ruling government, the PIC reaffirmed its implicit and explicit confidence in its leadership.

The communiqué was signed by CAN’s Vice President/Head, Organisation of African Instituted Churches, Most Rev. Daniel Okoh; Head, Christian Council of Nigeria, Most Rev. Emmanuel Udofia; Head, “Tarayar Ekklisiyar Kristi A Nijeriya”, a conglomeration of 13 church groups in CAN/ECWA Fellowship, Most Rev. Emmanuel Dziggau and Head, Christian Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria/Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria.

It reads: “That CAN is a family; as a family, it has its own internal mechanisms for resolving its issues. CAN has therefore set in motion the processes for resolving these issues.
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