Oritsejafor seeks third term

olamide oni

February 23, 2016 2:02 PM

“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."

Pastor Ayodele Oritsejafor

President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor is currently making moves towards getting a third term tenure which would mean making amendment to the association's constitution.

Leadership reports 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.

According to an unnamed source, “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.“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.

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“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 use 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 the source is to mobilize like minded Christian leaders to form a new Christian body that will stand for truth and righteousness.

Chairman of the northern chapter of CAN, Professor Daniel Babaye, has however said that while the amendment of the constitution is being considered, there are no plans to approve a third term clause.

“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.

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