A former Senate President, Ameh Ebute, has charged leaders of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to leave politics for politicians and concentrate on soul-winning.
He said this yesterday in Abuja at the opening forum of a two-day international conference on Politics, Religion and Ethnicity in Nigeria organized by the National Inter-Faith and Religious Organizations for Peace (NIFROP).
“I caution all religious leaders in Nigeria, especially those of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), my primary constituency as a Christian, to de-robe themselves from the garments of partisanship or political parties. There is no need to heat the polity with inflammable comments at his delicate period of our history,” he said.
Ebute also urged the Chairman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Prof. Ango Abdullahi, to desist from reducing Nigeria or the geographical North to an ethnic or religious fiefdom.
