CAN cancels protest march slated for July 11

*Real reason CAN shelved its planned protest

*Undisputable revelations bringing heats on CAN – Respondents

Each time the Muslim Community exposed CAN, the Samson Ayokunle-led religious group, losing all its arguments, ran underground only to come up with fresh ones including what it did with its protest on killings in Benue State during which CAN openly campaigned against President Buhari’s 2019 election and some churches allegedly told their members not to vote any Muslim candidate at the coming elections.

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has postponed until further notice its planned public protest slated for July 11, 2018.

It said it did so due to some circumstances beyond its control.

CAN President, Rev. Samson Ayokunle made the announcement in a statement signed by Pastor Adebayo Oladeji , his Special Assistant, Media and Communication.

However, Ayokunle said the three-day prayer and fasting would hold as scheduled from July 9 to 11, 2018 in all churches and state chapters of CAN.

He disclosed that the church and denominational leaders would come to the National Christian Centre together with the National Executive Committee (NEC), of CAN on the July 11 at 10am to pray to God for the nation.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN),  recalls that the leadership of CAN had declared July 9 to 11 as National Day of prayers and fasting programme against the killings across the country.

The association also called on all Nigerians, both within and outside the country to take part in the programme.

The association  said the decision was hinged on the wilful and persistent killings of fellow citizens in general and Christians  in particular,  mostly in Plateau and Benue states where mass burial has become the norm.

”CAN is worried, disturbed and disappointed that despite all the clarion calls on President Muhammadu Buhari to re-organise his security team by replacing all  the security chiefs, he has consistently not responded to such calls,” the association said.

But the “like-religion like-political” group of agitators may have now decided to cancel its national protest against the Buhari Administration like it did severally in the past when due to overwhelming criticisms from the Nigerian Muslim Community, some notable online media (including The DEFENDER), the Secretary to the Government of the Federation Boss Mustapha and Special Assistant to the President on Social Media Lauretta Onochie.

It will be recalled that the Nigerian Muslim Community under the Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar has never hidden its conviction that CAN has hands in all of the confusion that have bedeviled the country due to its misrepresentation of facts of happenings particularly in situation of killings.

The Muslim community had accused CAN of being the architect of the “herdsmen” imbroglio saying it was CAN’s own idea to stoke ember of crisis in the land particularly against Islam, Muslims and the Hausa/Fulani/Muslim man at the helms of affairs of the country as President.

Each time the Muslim Community exposed CAN, the Samson Ayokunle-led religious group, losing all its arguments, ran underground only to come up with fresh ones including what it did with its protest on killings in Benue State during which CAN openly campaigned against President Buhari’s 2019 election and some churches allegedly told their members not to vote any Muslim candidate at the coming elections.

The SGF Boss Mustapha, in his own criticism of CAN-related religious sentiments, had told crowd at the Dan Anyanwu Stadium last week that it was not possible to talk about anti-Christian Agenda in President Buhari being that, not only his cabinet is shared equally (18:18) between Muslims and Christians but also that he the SGF and Head of Service of the Federation are Christian, asking “what else do we want?”

The SGF noted that, “This is the first time that Nigeria will have SGF and HoS are Christian.  It has never been.  But Buhari Administration has tolerated that”.

Also speaking on CAN’s misbehavior in ways that have tried to run down the government, Lauretta Onochie did not spare the Christian Association of Nigeria in her twitter post recently where she put the association better as “Cankerworm” Association of Nigeria (CAN).

In justifying her criticism of CAN, the UK teacher said there is no place in the Bible or history of Christianity where it is learned that Jesus Christ preached hate like CAN and its agents in Christendom have done in the public life of Nigeria.

She queried what manner of Christian would turn his eyes away when over 1,000 Fulani people were killed in Taraba only for him to hype and cry woes over the killing of 75 people in Benue?

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) too has not minced its words linking the easy execution of politician-made problems of Nigeria to CAN.

And President Buhari’s government too did not shy away from telling Nigerians that because there is no religion that accepts indecency and killing of lives, he will fish out people behind the problems of Nigeria soonest and deal with them appropriately.

President Buhari told Northern CAN recently that CAN have got to cooperate with the effort to rid Nigeria of corruption and insecurity of any type.

All of these expositions may have informed why CAN suddenly cancelled its July 9-11 nationwide protests against the government over the killings, The DEFENDER gathered.