Concerned Northern Nigerian
Christians
Press Statement
A Limit To CAN’s so-called
Condemnation of Bishop Kukah
As concerned Christians of
Northern Nigerian extraction, we
find it expedient to respond to the
unbecoming words credited to one
Elder Sunday Oibe, who claims to
be speaking on behalf of Christian
Association of Nigeria (CAN) as its
Director of Research, Planning and
Strategy.
In which he denigrated Bishop
Matthew Hassan Kukah over recent
views allegedly expressed by the
cleric regarding acquisition of
private jets/aircrafts by some
Nigerian Christians leaders which
according to reports, our respected
clergy described as an
embarrassment to Christianity
considering the perilous times we
are in.
For the avoidance of doubt, Sunday
Oibe or whatever he is or claims to
represent, acted wrongly and
grossly confirms our fears as to the
relegation of our honest, unifying
and most coveted association (CAN)
and her true ideals as carefully laid
down by her founding fathers
Ambassador Jolly Tanko Yusuf,
Cardinal Ekandem and many
others. Though built with integrity
and an earnest quest for genuine
freedom amongst Christians, it’s
ridiculous how it is being turned
into a mere child’s play and a
medium for wild gains best known
to the likes of Oibe and his pay
masters and fellow merchants.
Mr. Sunday Oibe embarked on a
voyage of cheap black mail that
exposes his ignorance on the person
of Bishop Kukah. Bishop Kukah
never served in Obasanjo’s
government but was only a member
of an Adhoc Human Rights
Investigation Panel, popularly
known as Oputa Panel, akin to the
South African Truth and
Reconciliation Commission, chaired
by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. That
Tutu chaired South African
Commission and has been friends of
Mandela for decades; does that
mean he served in ANC’s
government of Mandela? Kukah
had been friends with Obasanjo for
years in his African Leadership
Forum in the 1980s until Obasanjo’s
imprisonment, and what is wrong if
he served in the committee?
It was the same ignorance he
exhibited all through his
inconsequential outburst, and so
called ‘Kukah’s condemnation’.
There is nothing beneath the
Nigerian government, previously
and even in the present that has put
Kukah’s integrity in doubt and
questionable except for Oibe’s pay
masters whose understanding of
nation building, is opulence via a
religious exploitation with
Christianity as the epicentre and
cover. Count Kukah and his likes
out of that contraption, it has never
been our focus and never will. If it
has been his trademark, Kukah will
not be where he is standing today.
It is the likes of Oibe and his master
Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor that have a
responsibility of exonerating
themselves from the wrong side of
Nigerian history in the hereafter,
but for Bishop Matthew Hassan
Kukah, it has been a life of service
to God and Country and to God be
the glory, it has been a life most
worthy of emulation for all true
lovers of God walking in integrity,
conscience and saying the truth to
power without any compromise.
Signed.
Yahuda Peter

#Gbam# Perfect reply to the charlatan named Oibe and his so called paymaster Ayo!