CAN President, Oritsejafor May Seek 3rd Term

There are strong indications that the current President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor may have commenced moves to amend the constitution of the Christian body to give room for a third term tenure.

Our correspondent gathered that the CAN President is also nursing the idea of being a lifetime Chairman of Board of trustee should the third term agenda fail to scale through at next week Tuesday’s meeting in Abuja.

An inside source told our Correspondent that “Already, the CAN President and his team have drafted the constitution to create more blocks in CAN so that the third term bid for Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor can be realized or he becomes life Board Chairman of the CAN.”

 

“If the agenda does not go through, they (CAN officials) would postpone the election till further notice.

“I am saying this so that Christian leaders would know the antics of the CAN President,” said our source.

“Pastor Ayo is scared of facing trial over his involvement in the Arms deal and other financial scandals and wants to hide under CAN, that is why he does not want to leave office.”

“He does not want to be investigated by President Buhari and wants to remain in CAN to get Christians support and sentiment that is why he is pushing for constitutional amendment now knowing that his tenure will soon expire in less than five months.

“Already, there is clause in the current constitution that forbids any amendment until a six-month notice is given to all the blocs of CAN. So, there is no way we can review the constitution now.

“Some christian leaders have threatened to take legal action should Pastor Ayo insist or used money to buy states representatives  to vote in favour of his illegal and unpopular constitution amendment during Tuesday meeting,” the source added.

Another option according our source is to mobilize like minded Christian leaders to form a new Christian body that will stand for truth and righteousness.

The chairman of the Northern chapter of CAN, Professor Daniel Babaye confirmed to our correspondent that a constitution amendment is being considered but that he was not aware of the third term clause in the plan.

“We had our northern CAN NEC meeting, we also know that the new drafted constitution will  recognize Northern and Southern CAN but for the third term? No, it would not even sail through,” he said.