CAN meets Tinubu, Atiku, Obi and make their request

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17 Nov 2022

According to His Eminence, Archbishop Daniel Okoh, President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, the nation is experiencing a development and governance crisis. He attributed the difficulties to the nation's "incoherent constitutional and institutional framework," which he defined. This was said by the CAN President on Tuesday in Abuja during the first portion of an interactive session with 2023 presidential contenders.
"A Prosperous and Peaceful Nigeria Founded on Justice and Freedom for All" is the focus of the presidential debate. He said that CAN had taken the time to consider the issues impeding peace and progress in the nation and had developed recommendations on how to best address them. Okoh said, “We have consulted with Nigerians of diverse religious, ethnic and social identities on the problems of the country and the solutions to them have been articulated in the strategic document we call the Charter for Future Nigeria. The document considers this incoherence in political, social, and economic dimensions. It makes genuine recommendations for resolving Nigeria’s recurrent crises that borders on justice and fairness, equality of all ethnic and religious groups, equal access to basic economic and social rights, political freedom and an egalitarian and just social order.”
He claims that the main goal of the conversation is to make sure that each presidential contender is aware of the issues that Nigerian Christians are facing and is prepared to offer solutions in the form of policies and programs.

The presidential candidate of the Action Alliance, Hamza Al-Mustapha, remarked during the meeting that Nigeria didn't need an untrustworthy leader and pointed out that economic sabotage and insecurity would be the future administration's biggest learning curves.

Today (Wednesday), the All Progressives Congress' Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the People's Democratic Party's Atiku Abubakar, and the Labour Party's Peter Obi are scheduled to participate in the second leg of an interactive session between CAN and all of the 2023 presidential candidates in the nation's capital. Kashim Shettima, a former governor of Borno State, had been chosen by Tinubu as his running mate. However, CAN and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, headed by Bishop Wale Oke, criticized his choice to run with a Muslim like himself.