Violence - Buhari Lied - PFN

Daily Champion

3 May 2011

Violence - Buhari Lied - PFN

THE North Central Zone of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), has described recent attacks on the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) by Congress of Progressive Change (CPC), as evidence of continuing tendency of politicians to pay lip service to the truth, while breaching it with extreme selectivity.

In a statement released at the weekend in Jos, the Plateau State capital and titled: 'Speaking Truth to our times', the National Vice President of PFN, Bishop Jonas Katung said: "we cannot and shall not, allow misrepresentations calculated to further fan the embers of intolerance and discord to go unanswered."

The presidential candidate of the CPC, General Muhammadu Buhari, through his spokesman, Mr. Yinka Odumakin had described PFN president, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor's calls as "misguided call for the arrest of Gen. Buhari", describing him as a "Villa priest who is widely believed to be a beneficiary of the rot that presently defines governance in Nigeria the right to defend the tainted victory of the PDP, we frown at the use of the CAN mask to prosecute his Aso Rock brief."

Listing several worship centres that were burnt in different parts of the North including Daura, Funtua, Malumfashi, Bauchi, Gombe, Zamfara and Jigawa, the PFN North Central zonal leaders wondered why General Buhari would deny CAN the right to call for an accounting.

"In our view, CAN not only has the right to call for those accountable to be brought to book, it has a duty to do so," Katung said "if CAN did not, it would be woefully remiss in its duty to its flock."

According to him, "Talk of 'dragging the entire Body of Christ into partisan politics' is the deliberate misrepresentation upon which the General's house of inaccuracies is built. If anything, these elections have debunked the validity of party allegiances as the foundation of voting patterns.

"What we have witnessed is a sea change in which the paramountcy of individual credibility, integrity, rectitude and capability was counted for more than party labels. The basis of choosing who governs us in an evolving democratic dispensation is and should continue to be the perceived capacity of those that put themselves forward to deliver on the needs of the people.