Pastor Okotie's incursion into the controversial arms deal involving Christian Association of Nigeria President, Ayo Oritsejafor has earned the flamboyant preacher scathing remarks.
Here is the sequel to Okotie's call for the resignation Pastor Oritsejafor as CAN President for his alleged role in the busted arms deal that has seen South Africa seize all of $9.3m involved as reported by dailypost.
The Christian Association of Nigeria has replied the founder of
Household of God, Pastor Chris Okotie on his recent call that its
president, Ayo Oritsejafor vacates CAN office.
The Association
advised the preacher to manage his home and keep to biblical principles
of one man, one wife instead of attacking Oritsejafor.
Okotie had
in an article called for the immediate resignation of his colleague over
the alleged involvement of his aircraft in the controversial $9.3m
smuggled into South Africa by two Nigerians and an Israeli.
Okotie,
in the article said, “Considering the collateral damage Pastor Ayo’s
close relationship with the President has done to the Christian
community, it is fit and proper for the Pastor to resign immediately as
CAN President to salvage what remains of the battered image of the
association.
“This is without prejudice to the on-going
investigation on the matter. Denials of his culpability by the Federal
Government, CAN officials and his own recent defense, does nothing to
reduce the moral burden this whole saga places on his shoulders. As the
titular leader of Christians in Nigeria, there’s now a serious crisis of
confidence on his leadership and he ought to respond to it by resigning
from his exalted position.”
Reacting to Okotie’s stance, the
Director of National Issues in CAN, Mr. Sunny Oibe, said Okotie was
looking for popularity through Oritsejafor.
He said, “Is Chris Okotie a Christian? How many wives has he?
“He
should go and sort out himself. Even the government has exonerated
Pastor Ayo of all the allegations. So, who is Okotie? Well, it is
laughable if Chris Okotie should demand that Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor
should resign as President of CAN.
“Chris Okotie should remove the
log in his eyes before he begins to see a peck in somebody’s eyes.
Pastor Ayo had a soaring integrity before he was elected the President
of CAN. Who elected Chris Okotie to become the spokesperson of
Christians in Nigeria?
“CAN will not like to join issues with
Okotie because doing that will amount to making him popular.
He is
looking for popularity which he doesn’t have through Pastor Ayo and he
is not going to get it,” he told Punch
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