MURIC Defends ‘Bishops’ At Shettima Unveiling, Says CAN ‘Lied About Clerics Being Fake’

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has criticised the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) over its comments on the clerics who attended the unveiling of the All Progressives Congress (APC) vice-presidential candidate.

On Wednesday, Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate, unveiled Kashim Shettima, former Borno governor, as his running mate.

Present at the ceremony were persons clad in clerical outfits, which CAN described as a “scene from a Nollywood movie”.

In a statement issued on Friday by Ishaq Akintola, director of the organisation, MURIC cited a report published by PM News, adding that the identities of the clerics were known, and that CAN was simply raising a “false alarm.

“The identities of all the Christian clerics who attended the event have been revealed and none is fake. It is crystal clear from the above that CAN is not to be trusted. CAN disowns its own members who are not ordinary Christians but knowledgeable bishops and pastors. This shows that a caucus within the leadership of CAN has unleashed tyranny of the oligarchy on Christendom in Nigeria,” the statement reads.”The fact that several bishops and pastors dared CAN by attending the unveiling of the APC running mate in spite of directives by the umbrella Christian body to the contrary is also symptomatic of the hypocrisy and ineffectiveness of CAN’s noise over the Muslim-Muslim ticket.

“It is a toothless bulldog. CAN is long in rhetoric, short in facts. It also proves that serious-minded and knowledgeable Christians who can differentiate between right and wrong no longer follow CAN’s instructions.”