CAN Is Working For The Presidency –CPC
09.06.2013, 10:28 Local
National Publicity Secretary, Congress for Progressive
Change, Rotimi Fashakin, in this interview with LEKE
BAIYEWU, defends the position a former presidential
candidate of the party, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) on
the proscription of Boko Haram and state of emergency in
the North-East
The Christian Association of Nigeria has
faulted the comments made by former Head
of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, on the
declaration of state of emergency in three
North-Eastern states and the proscription of
the Islamic sects, Boko Haram and Ansaru. Could you shed
more light on the position of the statesman?
Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor's use of CAN is mainly for political
purpose. He talks impulsively. Let us examine Buhari's position,
which Oritsejafor did not take his time to examine properly. Yes,
Boko Haram has been carrying out insurgency in an area. Buhari
tried to look at how Boko Haram started as a group; what led to
the level of severity of insecurity in the northern region and he
tried to juxtapose it with the way the Niger Delta militancy
started. It was the leaders of the Niger Delta that encouraged
militancy for political purpose.
What Buhari said was to awaken our thought to understanding
how the whole thing started and what it has cost us. If you made
a truce in the Niger Delta region by talking to the militants - even
though their leaders created the problem - and reintegrated them
back into the society, then we should look at the insurgency in
the North, which was exacerbated by the government. He said
soldiers arrested the former Boko Haram leader, Mohammed
Yusuf, but the following day, after he was released to the police,
he was killed. Buhari said that was the cause of the problem.
He said this was a practical knee-jerk approach by this particular
government. This government has the notoriety for applying
knee-jerk approach to national issues. At a time, the government
said it wanted to have amnesty and peace talks with Boko Haram.
At another time, it was talking about state of emergency. The
military had been blamed even by the United States over abuse
of human rights. The US once lambasted the military over the
kind of carnage that took place in Baga. It was that kind of
incongruity that Buhari tried to bring up.
How do you juxtapose a situation where a soldier was killed and,
in the process, 200 innocent lives were killed with their houses
burnt? We also have a situation in where many security agents
were killed in Nasarawa and the Director-General of the State
Security Service said he had forgiven them (the killers). How can
he say such a thing? This is one of the issues Buhari described as
totally incongruous. These things do not show a government that
is consistent in its policy and these are the things that he was
trying to point out and they (CAN) have twisted the essence of the
argument.
When you say CAN is political, how do you mean?
It is not long that the Catholic Church temporarily withdrew its
membership of CAN. The Catholic Church said as long as
Oritsejafor remains the president of CAN, it would continue to
hold its membership of the association in abeyance. They have
looked at the way Oritsejafor is leading CAN and it is in a manner
of going towards the precipice. CAN has become more or less the
religious arm of Jonathan's presidency. We have never seen a
President of CAN that bought a private jet while in office.
We have always known the presidents of CAN to have used that
office to ensure the collective wellbeing of Christians in Nigeria.
We know that on November 10, 2012, when the jet was presented
to Oritsejafor in Warri, Jonathan was in the congregation. We
don't know for what purpose Oritsejafor would be calling for the
arrest of Buhari, the same way he called for Buhari's arrest on
April 24, 2011, just after (Jonathan's Senior Special Adviser on
Media and Publicity) Reuben Abati, had written his article that
Buhari was responsible for the mayhem that occurred after the
election. Oritsejafor took it hook, line and sinker.

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CPC leaders and followers/members should stop all these Holier Than Thou attitudes because of their rule at all cost stand. After all most of these so-called politicians won't be in the country if religious war brakes out between Christians and Muslims.

let me say it again,9ja delta militants nvr for once bombed place of worship,motor parks,nor target helpless citizens,their fight was a just couse in the sense that d FG should develop the community while taking the oil in d area.what is boko haram fighting for? u dont want western education,u want nigerian to b islamic nation,u want northen president thats why ur killing helpless citizen why not go and kill those that are holding what ur demanding for.

olaric: CPC leaders and followers/members should stop all these Holier Than Thou attitudes because of their rule at all cost stand. After all most of these so-called politicians won't be in the country if religious war brakes out between Christians and Muslims.

Follow and read again,this time use glasses the last i checked ur glacuma was about to go but is back again

touch4mony: let me say it again,9ja delta militants nvr for once bombed place of worship,motor parks,nor target helpless citizens,their fight was a just couse in the sense that d FG should develop the community while taking the oil in d area.what is boko haram fighting for? u dont want western education,u want nigerian to b islamic nation,u want northen president thats why ur killing helpless citizen why not go and kill those that are holding what ur demanding for.

I advice you to shutup,how many oil facilities you guys bombed,you were the one that bombed abuja on independent day,is ur memory card still ok?

we know well,well thats true

Niger delta militant, boko haram eggon militia.all are a bunch of criminals

I swear, this CPC na ANTI-CHRISTAIN party!