The Christian body condemned
Onochie’s description of CAN as “CAN of worms” on her Twitter account.
Onochie had tweeted, “Prime
Minister Theresa May, a Christian, is in a mosque doing what humans go to do in
a place of worship. She knows that her God is the same one also called Allah.
Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN of worms, here’s a great lesson in love
and godliness, not hatred & anger!”.
But Pastor Adebayo Oladeji,
spokesman to CAN President, Rev Dr Samson Olasupo Ayokunle, in statement, said
the failure of the presidency to call Onochie to order was capable of making
the body to believe that she is expressing the mind of the presidency, her
employer.
He said: “Onochie, from all
indications, shares a lot of things in common with Esau who sold his birthright
for a single meal. She is also like Eliab who was not ready to stand up against
Goliath who had defied the God of Israel, but was burning with anger at David
who would not allow Goliath to continue insulting God and His people.
“Instead of asking CAN leadership
to borrow a leaf from the British Prime Minister, Onochie should have directed
her advice to her principal to emulate his British counterpart who gives all
the citizens under her watch a sense of belonging and adequate security,
irrespective of their religious, ethnic and political persuasions.
“Instead of being a liability to
the Church in the corridors of power, we counsel her to learn from the likes of
Moses, Esther, Daniel and the other three Hebrew children who sacrificed their
conveniences and risked their influential opportunities to defend the interest
of God’s people against the imperial orders.
“The problem of irritants like
Onochie in the corridors of power is that the truth cannot be buried forever,
especially in today’s world where no government has monopoly of the media with
the emergence of the global technological communication, especially the social
media.
“The world is aware of how
Christians are being killed on a daily basis, while the security agencies seem
to be looking elsewhere. Instead of addressing these failures by the
government, its principal officers are justifying the crime with sundry flimsy
excuses; forgetting that the primary function of any serious government is the
protection of lives and property of the citizens.
“CAN counsels this big-mouth
social media aide to employ decorum in performing her function, instead of
acting like an urchin who has strayed into the corridors of power. She is
hereby advised to walk away from the path trodden by Cain and stop embracing
Balaam’s blunder for personal profit.
“Let it be restated once again
that CAN will never cease speaking truth to power, irrespective of the
unguarded utterances by Onochie.”
This woman amazes me. She talks like a psychiatric patient. I suggest that test for such ailment should be carried out on Presidential Aides to avoid similar occurence.
ReplyDeleteUgly thing, modern times Jezebel. Who the hell is she sef. What is her pedigree? I blame Buharia for picking up every trash and calling them aides. Asmy people will say, o di ka odi kpoba, o di ka odi egolu. Like customers buy market from like traders. Mtcheeeeewwww
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