The Christian Association of Nigeria, Northern Region, has denied endorsing Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello for president in 2023, calling an online report on the matter “a fabrication.”
The Christian body stated that during its extraordinary meeting in Abuja over the weekend, the CAN leadership in the 19 Northern states and Abuja did not endorse any candidate.
The apex Christian body said in a communiqué issued at the end of the meeting, signed by Northern CAN’s Public Relations Officer, Jechonia Gilbert, that “the strategy meeting is to collate reports from the various zones concerning the security situation in various states that make up the zone with the aim of helping the leadership of Northern CAN in making a bold statement to the nation about the troubling security challenges in the North.
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“We pray for Nigerians to unite in order to defeat our enemies, particularly those who kill in the name of religion, kidnap for ransom, and rape our women across the country.”
“We must band together to rid our country of this evil.” We also want to clarify a recent report in some online papers that Northern CAN had chosen Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello as its presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections.
Northern CAN has never supported any individual for any elective position in the history of Nigerian elections and will not do so this time.
As a religious body, our duty to the Nigerian nation is to pray for the nation’s peace and to encourage our members to participate in every constitutional process aimed at nation-building.
“As an organization with a large following and members from various political parties, it is unthinkable that we have adopted a specific individual who is not even a flag bearer of any political party as our candidate for the 2023 presidential elections.”
