Muslim-Muslim Ticket: CAN Rebuffs Lalong, Don’t Drag Us Into Your Politics

The Plateau State Chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has rebuffed Governor Simon Lalong over his claim that his appointment as the Director General of Tinubu/Shettima Campaign Organisation was endorsed by it putting into a tailspin the governor’s apparent move to justify the Muslim-Muslim ticket of his party, All Progressives Congress, APC.

CAN also frowned bitterly at politicians using Christianity and CAN especially to market their political interests.

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The response from CAN came after Governor Lalong claimed during an interview that members of Plateau State CAN were at the airport to welcome him after he was appointed DG of the Tinubu Campaign Organisation.

Speaking during an interview, the State CAN chairman, Reverend Father Polycarp Lubo insisted that because majority of people that welcomed the governor at the airport were Christians did not translate that CAN as a body was represented adding that every Christian is a member of CAN.

“The governor is a member of CAN but the fact that 70 per cent of those that received him at the airport were Christians does not mean that we received him as a body, they can be classified as Christian politicians. As the State CAN chairman, I was not there, my other executive members were not there as well, and I don’t know those who received him at the airport.

GWG reports that the national body of CAN has expressed opposition to the Muslim-Muslim ticket that Lalong has been asked to manage.

” His appointment has nothing to do with Christianity, Lalong was appointed simply because he is a party man. He was not given that appointment because he is a Christian or Catholic. We don’t have anything to do with that appointment, What power do I have to appoint him as the DG of a political campaign council? I am apolitical, I belong to no political party, the position was given to him by his party not CAN.

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” So they should not bring us into it as if we lobby for him to be given that appointment, so what business do we have with his appointment, we are not bothered about that. Does CAN belong to APC?”, he asked

“Those engaging in name-dropping are looking for cheap popularity, they are looking for approval of the Christians, this name-dropping must stop. Yes, we pray for him like any other leader but we know nothing about his appointment and did not endorse the appointment.

“Members of CAN belong to different political parties, they should not drag the name of CAN into the mud. If you are a Christian, stick to your party and its manifestos, and stop using religion or the name of CAN for cheap political gain” he advised.

He, therefore, advised the political class to always play by the rule of the game and run an issues-based campaign instead of mangling one another.

In his words: “The governor is my friend, there is no doubt about that, he is my brother, we eat at the same table with him, we take communion together. So I cannot turn my back against him, I will pray for him wherever he found himself,” the CAN chairman said in respect of the apparent difficulty Governor Lalong has found himself marketing the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the APC.

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