By Sam Eyoboka
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.”