The Christian Association of Nigeria yesterday explained that it visited Vice President Yemi Osinbajo last Friday to hear his side of the corruption allegation trailing a certain N90bn election fund.
CAN President, Rev. Samson Ayolunle, in a statement by his media aide, Bayo Oladeji, said what the association did was not in violation of the law and did not amount to an endorsement of Osinbajo as reported.
He said the leadership of the association could never endorse corruption and had never exonerated anyone accused of corruption “because we are not a court of law.”
“Anyone accused of corruption has to prove his or her innocence with documentary evidence before the court of competent jurisdiction as we all know before his or her innocence can be upheld, Ayokunle said.
He explained: “After we had interacted with him and he said that the allegation was baseless and should be treated as rubbish, and not only that, that he said that he was going to pursue the matter legally to prove his innocence, we then assured him that if he is proved innocent, then we throw our weight behind him.
“We thereafter prayed for him and our nation Nigeria. We urged him to continue to serve the nation with clean hands.
“The leadership of CAN has never endorsed corruption. In our earlier visits to President Muhammadu Buhari, we had praised him for fighting war against corruption, but urged him to make it comprehensive, sparing no one irrespective of political affiliation.”
