Emmanuel Thomas l Friday, December 09, 2016
ABUJA, Nigeria – The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN has condemned statement credited to one John Hayab kicking against the proposed bill for Christian Courts before the House of Representative, describing him as a hungry anti-Christ looking for food.
In a statement, Secretary of CAN (19 Northern States and Abuja), Mr. Danladi Yerima said John Hayab who claimed to be Public Relations Officer for Northern CAN was not speaking for the body.
“Our attention has been drawn to a statement by one John Hayab kicking against the proposed bill for Christian Courts before the House of Representative, in which he claimed to be speaking for the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the 19 Northern States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja as its Public Relations Officer (PRO).
“Ordinarily, we would have ignored him but for the fact that the public who do not know his antecedents may be deceived by his lies. However, we wish to make it clear that he is on his own.
“John Hayab is not speaking for Northern CAN, he is speaking for himself and not Northern CAN because to the best of our knowledge, Northern CAN has never sat down to discuss this issue, talk less of even allowing him to go and express an opinion on its behalf”, the group said.
“Even I as the Secretary of Northern CAN can’t speak, without making consultations. So, as far as we are concerned, the opinion expressed (by John Hayab) is for himself and for himself alone.
“The members and leadership of Northern CAN is disassociating itself from that statement. The Nigerian public and the church should take note of the fact that we, as a body, have never sat, discussed and agreed for such an information to be issued out to the public. So, we shall speak and when we speak on this very issue, the whole world will know the stand of the church”, CAN said.
According to him, we know that he is looking for food and if in the course of that he gets a sponsor, we won’t be surprised.
“But definitely, John Hayab cannot be speaking for us. He is speaking for himself and for his own benefits”, he said, adding that he remains a mole. ”He is working for his personal interest and those who are sponsoring him. Those who his antecedents won’t be surprised by the latest betrayal by him against the church of Christ.
“ Hayab has been anti-Northern Christians and we know that. He was the person who has been campaigning and saying that Northern CAN was an illegal organisation. But during the election, he mobilised some people who, ordinarily, wouldn’t have participated in that election and got himself elected. “And that is the result of what we are now witnessing. The mobilisation came from outside, he was not within the fold and it is very unfortunate”, he said.
He said his expulsion is left for Northern CAN and is a ‘’subject that would be seriously looked into because we have discovered that Hayab is not representing us’’, he said.
