Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has condemned
comments credited to the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Matthew
Hassan Kukah and Pastor Tunde Bakare, who claimed that acquisition of private
jets by religious leaders diminishes moral voices of the church in the war
against corruption and are therefore calling for a revolution in the Church of
God.
Speaking in a telephone interview, National Director
of Research, Planning and Strategy, Elder Sunday Oibe, urged the Catholic
bishop and the former vice presidential candidate of CPC, that if they have
anything against the person of Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, they should come out and
say so, and not hide under the cloak of the gift of a jet to attack the CAN
president.
Oibe, who doubles as the Public Relations Officer of
Northern CAN, said he who lives in a glass house should not throw stones.
He said: “If there is any clergyman in the country
whose constituency is government, it is Bishop Kukah, who served every
government in power in the last decade.
“He thinks people have forgotten in a hurry how he
served in Obasanjo’s government and turned round to attack the former
president, or his fraternity with the former Governor James Ibori and his
Rivers State counterpart, Peter Odili.”
Culled from Vanguard
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