A management tussle is rocking the Christian Affiliation of Nigeria (CAN) within the 19 Northern states and the Federal Capital Territory over tenure elongation.
DAILY POST studies that two teams are laying declare to the management of the affiliation.
The group led by Rev. Yakubu Pam has condenmed the faction led by Rev. Joseph Hayab for allegedly organising an election of latest officers with out following due course of.
The Pam group described the newly elected officers as mischief makers bent on destabilising the Northern CAN for egocentric and political functions.
Addressing a press convention on Tuesday in Kaduna, the Secretary Basic of Northern CAN on the facet of the Pam faction, Elder Sunday Oibe alleged that the motion of the Hayab group amounted to fraud and illegality.
Countering the Pam faction, Hayab defined, “It is rather clear that constitutionally the tenure of Rev. Yakubu Pam and his officers have expired. It expired over two years in the past they usually had been reelected in 2019 for the second time period that has three-year tenure. We at the moment are in 2025. In order that they have overstayed within the workplace for over two years.
“Constitutionally, they can not conduct or be concerned on this CAN election. As a substitute of them to handle the problem at hand, which is expiration of tenure, they’re busy insulting folks, calling others all types of names.
“We won’t be part of points with them, however we are going to do the appropriate factor for the event and progress of Northern CAN.
“I used to be invited to Abuja final week as a member of CAN like every other member the place the election was organised by elders of CAN from the North. I used to be opportuned to be elected because the substantive chairman of Northern CAN at an election that was attended by 16 states CAN chairmen and their secretaries and different stakeholders of the organisation.”
However the Pam faction, talking by way of Elder Oibe, stated, “Final week, a bunch which referred to as itself Involved Christian Elders of the North, led by one Joseph Hayab, invited some folks to a gathering in Abuja. On the assembly, he determined to nominate himself because the chairman of Christian Affiliation within the 19 Northern states and the Federal CapitalTerritory (FCT).
“His co-travellers had been additionally appointed to numerous positions as members of his government. Their motion, to say the least, shouldn’t be solely fraudulent, unlawful, crude and self-serving, however divisive and tantamount to a non secular coup.”
