The Bishops and Clerics Forum of Nigeria (BAFCON) has threatened to
take legal action against the South South Chairman of the Christian
Association of Nigeria over its suspension.
The BAFCON spokesperson described their suspension as nonsensical
alleging that the National President of CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor
rushed into conclusion in supporting their suspension.
The South South Chairman of CAN, Archbishop God-Dowell Avwomakpa had
announced the suspension of the BAFCON over their alleged moves to
reconcile President Goodluck Jonathan with the seven Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) breakaway governors.
The members were suspended for “dabbling into politics” which according to CAN is unacceptable.
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Vanguard report below:
But in a statement signed by the BACFON President,
Prophet Jones Ode-Erue, made available to Vanguard, the group argued
that it was not true that their interest was only on the G-7governors,
emphasizing that “ that our consultations has been centered on
injustice, impunity, declension in
tolerance amongst leaders and
political office holders and insecurity.
“We want to correct in strong terms the misconstruction of our
mission by our detractors and urge the press not to be cowed into such
deception. It is a known fact that clerics, the world over, are known to
be non-partisan and a true man of God will never take side with either
party in a dispute,” it stated.
On their purported suspension, it stated that “Avwomakpa has no
capacity to suspend us. He is not our member, we only invited him to
join us when our delegation visited Governor Rotimi Amaechi. We give him
48 hours to retract the announcement of our suspension and all the bad
things he said about us on Delta Television or else we will institute
legal action against him and CAN.
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