Group faults Oritsejafor on fuel subsidy

A group of Northern Christians on Monday in Kaduna accused the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, of betraying the adherents of the religion by his support for the plans by the Federal Government to remove fuel subsidy.The Christians, under the aegis of Concerned Christians in the North, said at a news conference that it was unthinkable that Oritsejafor could support the removal.Spokesman for the group, Yahuda Marsa, said Christians in the North were concerned by the CAN Presidents endorsement of the governments plan, which had drawn condemnations from different sectors of the country.Marsa stated that the national leadership of CAN had failed to take into consideration the reality of the situation of things in Nigeria before endorsing the planned removal of fuel subsidy.Marsa said, From their dispositions and body language, the CAN President is using the umbrella body of Christians in charting a different aspiration from what we used to know of the organisation. On many occasions, Christians in Nigeria and beyond have been embarrassed by Oritsejafors take on several national issues.CAN has been ridiculed and has been denigrated by those who know little or nothing of our religion and even the richly-cherished history of CAN because of the activities of its present leadership.We know how our parents and grand-parents worked under Northern Christian Association of Nigeria, formed on the 11th April 1964 as a response to critical issues at that time. It was the same spirit that continued till on the 27th August 1976 when the Christian Association of Nigeria was established in Lagos. From then till now, it has been a pro-peoples sympathetic association.We appeal to Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor to study the stewardship of all his predecessors, right from Cardinals Ekandem and Okogie, to Akinola, Mbang and recently Archbishop Onayeikan and learn from their temperate leadership of CAN.
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