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Pick A Christian As Senate President Or House Of Reps Speaker', CAN Writes National Assembly

Today, both the President and the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria are Muslims and our appeal is to let either the Senate President or the Speaker be a Christian to address the religious dichotomy."


[quote]The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has called on the leadership of the National Assembly to elect a Christian as the Senate President or Speaker of the House of Representatives to reflect religious balance.

A statement issued by Pastor Adebayo Oladeji, Special Assistant (Media and Communications) to Reverend (Dr.) Samson Ayokunle, the CAN President, on Monday, noted that the President and the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) are Muslims.

CAN, therefore, urged the National Assembly leadership to consider electing Christians into the number one positions of the red and green chambers to give all Nigerians a sense of belonging.

The statement read: “As you prepare for your inauguration, CAN urges you to balance the appointments of your principal officers across religious divides to avoid domination and marginalisation of any kind in the interest of equity, justice, and fair play as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution (as amended).

“We, from the Christian Association of Nigeria, recognize the importance of the National Assembly to the stability and growth of our polity. It is in this regard that we call for ethnic and religious balance with depth in picking the leadership of that great institution of democracy. To ensure that this happens is to remove any apprehension and suspicion harbored towards the leadership of this country.

“Although both the Senate and the House of Representatives have several principal officers, our focus here are the Senate President, the Deputy Senate President, the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker. As it has been the practice since 1999, whenever the Senate President is a Christian, the Speaker of the House has always been a Muslim and vice- versa. And the same thing happens to their deputies.

“Our quest becomes imperative due to the existing order in the two other arms of the government. Today, both the President and the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria are Muslims and our appeal is to let either the Senate President or the Speaker be a Christian to address the religious dichotomy. This will give all Nigerians a sense of belonging irrespective of their religious affiliations.

And a critical study of Chapter 14 (13 and 14) of the 1999 Constitution (As Amended) underscores this truth. The composition of the government of the federation or any of its agencies and the conduct of its affairs shall be carried out in such a manner as to reflect the federal character of Nigeria and the need to promote national unity, and also to command national loyalty, thereby ensuring that there shall be no predominance of persons from a few state or from a few ethnic or other sectional groups in that Government or in any of its agencies.

“The composition of the government of a state, a local government council, or any of the agencies of such Government or council, and the conduct of the affairs of the government or council or such agencies shall be carried out in such manner as to recognise the diversity of the people within its area of authority and the need to promote a sense of belonging and loyalty among all the people of the federation.”

The association also called on the Ninth National Assembly members to “address both the religious and the North and South dichotomies in the interest of equity, justice and fair play”, while assuring lawmakers of their prayers “as they make laws for the peace, order and good government of the federation”.

On the present administration, the statement continued: “We also urge both the Presidency and the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to support the position of the Association in its quest to find an enduring peace, unity and development for our Fatherland. Doing this will go a long way in fixing some of the problems confronting our country today that are rooted in religious, tribal suspicion, domination and marginalisation at every level of the government.

“In as much as we agree that merit should not be sacrificed in every appointment, there are Christians, who are equally credible and capable of running the affairs of the National Assembly and other key positions in the government if given the opportunity. Those who had and still serving in one office or the other are our living proofs.

“Once again, we rejoice with you and congratulate you all. We give you the assurance of our spiritual support to this all important arm of the government. CAN is also willing and ready to collaborate with the Leadership of the National Assembly when the need arises.

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Religious arm of the PDP
If u don't know u won't

There is nothing wrong with lobbying like APC and presidency are currently doing. At the end of the day, it is only the NASS members that will have the final say on the issue in their chambers.

My only concern is that even the christian Vice President we have has received more denigration than support from these pastors for occurrences that are well beyond his control. Will having christian Speaker change their tilted view about this government? I don't think so.

The current leadership of CAN is just completely stupid.

The same Christian Association of Nigeria leaders who gathered to congratulate the lifeless Buhari but couldn't gather to visit Leah Sharibu's family, or Southern Kaduna people killed by herdsmen, or the family of Eunice Elisha, beheaded for preaching? Now they want a christian as the SP for their selfish gains.

God will punish them one after the other.

The Christians who were there before, what did they do

demolinka:
The Christians who were there before, what did they do

So we should all have Muslims? U need to have ur head checked.

Gbaja ambition is dead. Tinubu at work to realize his wife's ambition. If U know U know

If dey like make dem make Native doctor d Senate President, what does it matter? Whether Muslim or Christian or atheist does it change how selfish dey all are?

goan siddon joh.... we nid competent set of people no matter diar religion or tribe.

celeiyke:
So we should all have Muslims? U need to have ur head checked.

Why can't we have all Muslims?

ijustdey:
Pick A Christian As Senate President Or House Of Reps Speaker', CAN Writes National Assembly

Same thing is happening currently in Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife where all the senior principal of the school are Christian with hundred of Muslim Professors nobody says anything. Yet people in name of CAN clamouring for one post or the other for Christianity is Church part of Governance.

That one na gospel of our Lord abi...

MUMURICS are coming for you

See this money hungry jokers.

Abeg pick any body, too much religious sentiments

Osinbajo that is there what is he doing to stop herdsmen killing

Whether the christian has experience or not, whether he is qualified or not... just pick a damn frogging christian.

CAN is such a big joke.

Does it make any difference?

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The traditionalists nko If they too want post.?? Yeye people.
Who Xtain and Muslim help... Religion is our second problem after politics in Nigeria.

CAN and our Christian leaders should just stop wailing, they have forgotten when many of them were busy preaching against joining politics to their members, anyone seeing as a Christian participating in politics is a devil followers, example is Osinbajo, even CAN and many of our religious leaders such as Oyedepo adopt a Muslim in place of their fellow pastor just because he joined politics, one of my church leader once condemn me that I'm not a good Christian, when i told him I'm a political science student, many of them were deceiving themselves shouting my vote belongs to Jesus during election period and will be the first to wail after election of marginalization, our Muslim brethren will continue to be taking over all the leadership positions until our shameless Christian leaders stop being deceiver.

Useless CAN bloody fools

CAN should please respect themselves now...they don't have any business with politics for God sake.

Nuisance, epitome of corruption.
CAN of worms

celeiyke:
Gbaja ambition is dead. Tinubu at work to realize his wife's ambition. If U know U know

Mrs Tinubu, upper chamber
Honorable Gbaja, lower chamber

So how do their positions correlate together for Speaker of the HOR Blind hatred for Chief Bola Tinubu is not good.

it is well with Nigeria