2023: Don’t Be Partisan, CAN President Sends Important Message to Churches

2023: Don’t Be Partisan, CAN President Sends Important Message to Churches

  • Churches have been asked to do everything and make sure they are not partisan in the coming presidential election
  • This is the position of the new president of the Christian Association of Nigeria President, Dr Daniel Okoh
  • The cleric consequently urged Nigerians to be guided in making informed decisions about who they vote for

A strong message has been sent to Nigerian churches. The message was sent by no other person than the new president of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Dr Daniel Okoh.

Okoh specifically urged Christian leaders and churches across the country to be non-partisan in election matters, Punch Newspaper reports.

Daniel Okoh urges churches not to be partisan
CAN president asks churches not to be partisan
Source: UGC

According to the CAN president, Nigerians need to be properly guided in making the right decisions in the next presidential election.

Okoh made the call in Onitsha during the 75th-anniversary celebration of the founder of the Grace of God Mission International, Bishop Paul Nwachukwu.

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Okoh stated:

“The church should be non-partisan in election matters, it has a duty to ensure the people are properly guided in the choice of leaders they choose. If Nigerians can unite and forge a common front, the choice to turn around this country is in their hands."

Meanwhile, the Senior Pastor of Destiny Revival Ministry International, Godwin Okeke, has asked pastors who promote politicians in the church to stop it immediately.

He added:

“The church should play the role of informing, educating and sensitising, not supporting a particular candidate. They have the duty of exposing what each candidate stands for so that the people will be well informed.
“The church should be non-partisan because Jesus Christ died for all. A church should bring out the contest and put it on the ground for everybody to see and make informed decisions. That is the role of the church."

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Pastor Dare died in his sleep in Eket, Akwa-Ibom where he was leading one of the branches of the RCCG.

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