Following personal attacks on the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, The Fellowship of Churches of Christ in Nigeria (TEKAN) with over 12 denominations under its umbrella and 25 million members, has released a statement questioning the motives and timing of those who have been most vocal on the subject recently.
In a similar development, a Senatorial aspirant in Edo State, Mr. Egheomhanre Eyieyien has urged the Archbishop Emeritus of Lagos Archdiocese, Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie to keep quiet on the $9.3million Cash-For-Arms-Episode, arguing that the cardinal has no moral ground whatsoever to condemn anyone least Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN).
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“Only those who are hell-bent on abusing CAN and needlessly insulting Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor would even listen to Cardinal Okogie much less take him seriously. Was it not Cardinal Okogie who kept dumb as CAN President after military President Ibrahim Babangida surreptitiously went and made Nigeria, a secular country with multi-religious peoples, a member of the Organisation of Islamic Countries?
“Where was Cardinal Okogie when Babangida hosted the Islam in Africa Conference organised by the Organisation of Islamic Countries in Abuja in 1989 and which issued a communique on its strategy to islamise Africa in general and Nigeria in particular: the Abuja Declaration of 1989?
“Does Cardinal Okogie want us to remember how Babangida got him secretly video-taped during his sexcapades and made a mockery of his Oath of Celibacy? Cardinal Okogie must think that we have forgotten how that event made him suddenly deaf, dumb and blind while Gen. Babangida and Gen. Sani Abacha carried on as they liked those days.
“Cardinal Okogie should just remain silent in his retirement. If he were the CAN President today, one wonders how else he would have betrayed the Church of God in Nigeria,” Eyieyien stated.
Visibly angry with the attitude of Christians to members of their faith, Mr. Eyieyien expressed disgust at the rate Christians, who know nothing about God, are pointing accusing fingers at genuine men of God of whom they also know nothing.
“If there is any Nigerian pastor who has been so viciously maligned and needlessly ridiculed by “Christians” in Nigeria it is Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor,” he stated, adding “here is a man who has put his life on the line to resist the advance of the Islamist Jihadist Agenda in Nigeria being mocked by people who do not even know him.”
Continuing, Mr. Eyieyien thanked God that most northern Christians appreciate what God has used the CAN President to do in withstanding Boko Haram and bringing succour to the victims of its satanic activities.
“Thank God that the leaders of CAN across the member denominations value Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor’s leadership and continue to stand with him,” he maintained, pointing out that what is more sickening is that some of these same people who have turned themselves into Accusers of the Brethren are themselves living in the vilest of sins yet have the temerity to accuse a man of God of whom true Believers in Christ should be proud and grateful to God for His courage and boldness in the face of such immense opposition which would have cowed lesser mortals.
“Are there no limits to hypocrisy?” he asked, observing that the evidence is that Pastor Oritsejafor is in no way involved in money laundering or gun-running yet these folks have chosen to ignore the facts simply because they are intent on abusing the man.
“Some even believe that when they mock God by ridiculing His Word which says ‘Touch not my anointed and do my Prophet no harm’, as many flippantly do these days, then they are somehow immune from the consequences of abusing God’s anointed.
“The worst culprits are “Christians” who are obviously ignorant about spiritual authority and God’s prerogative to judge His servants. I pity them. They will go in the way of Korah and his ilk,” Eyieyien warned.
Also worried by all the brouhaha, President of The Fellowship of Churches of Christ in Nigeria (TEKAN), Rev. Emmanuel Dziggau said he had struggled to understand the reasons why respectable publications and news outlets across Nigeria continue to allow reports based on half-truths, hearsay and conjecture.
“The facts surrounding the case – as far as the involvement of Pastor Oritsejafor goes – seem to be quite clear. Although he has an interest in the plane he has none in the company that operates the plane, he had no involvement in chartering the flight itself. Indeed he does not even have an interest in the company which hired the plane and then chartered it to a third party,” he stated.
According to the TEKAN president, “Pastor Oritsejafor is now trapped in a cacophony of accusation based purely on the dreamt up conspiracies of others. Based on the facts of the case that have been made public so far, he is so far removed from the incident he surely cannot have had anything to do with it. Next these crackpots will be suggesting the flight attendants were part of the conspiracy, or maybe even the mechanics that refuel it.”
Continuing, he said: “Should the likes of Senator Akume or Nasir El-Rufai know some information that the rest of Nigeria does not; would it not be their duty to inform the authorities? There have even been those who have accused CAN of bringing Christianity into disrepute. Can they not see the irony, of committing the very crime in which they erroneously accuse Pastor Oritsejafor and CAN of committing, by dragging the name of the organisation and President through the very mud of which they speak? How can one calumny justify another? Maybe they should return to their scriptures; Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
“If only all the hypocrites would remove the planks from their own eyes, maybe we could all see more clearly,” he noted.
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