• Groups not known to CAC
NIGERIANS, particularly politicians, have been warned that any transaction they engage in with the Niger Delta Bishops and Christian Forum, South-South Bishops Forum and the South-South Christian Forum is at their own risk, as the groups are not known to, or work with the umbrella Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN).
CAN President, Ayo Oritsejafor, said the Christian umbrella in the country does not recognise the groups, which claim to be mediating and initiating dialogue between the Federal Government and the seven aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors and the entire Abubakar Baraje-led splinter group.
So far, the group has met former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako, in that exercise, CAN noted.
Oritsejafor said yesterday that the groups were not known to CAN or recognized by the body, stating: “We have heard about them and their exploits meeting various politicians and promising to mediate and initiate dialogue between the PDP and their members.
“We are a Christian body, we don’t involve ourselves in a political party’s internal affairs let alone mediating between PDP and their aggrieved members. We as CAN are apolitical. Honestly, we don’t know them.
“Their activities are worrisome and I, as president of the Christian umbrella body in Nigeria, the CAN, wish to plead and admonish politicians to beware of some Nigerians who use the name of Christians in Nigeria to do all sorts of things.
“They should be careful with some groups that use the name of CAN to commit several atrocities and fraudulent activities. What type of mediation would the so-called Niger Delta Bishops and Christian Forum be doing? I am the President of CAN and I can inform you that we are not aware of them.”
Meanwhile, an inquiry at the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) proved that the group is not a registered entity. The CAC said in a statement by a certain Aisha T. Tijani that the commission could not find evidence of registration of any of the groups.
A CAC letter reacting to an inquiry by Oludotun Sowemimo and Associates yesterday “informed that there was no data or any information on these associations or their database to confirm them being registered under part C’ (incorporated trustees) – furthermore we have also written to them to confirm in writing the legal status or otherwise of the organisations.”
Source: Guardian
