The Concerned Christian Forum of Nigeria, CCFN, has on Tuesday called on the National President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Samson Ayokunle, to resign his position within seven days.

In a press conference on Tuesday, founder of the coalition, Rev. Prince Thompson, said the President of CAN had become a tool in the hands of politicians.

The group said the current CAN leadership has made recent days of Christians in Nigeria to be in trauma.

According to the coalition, the faith of Christian faithful has never been so ridiculed in the history of the country as it has been in that space of time courtesy of the leadership of the body.

It, therefore, issued Reverend Ayokunle-led executive seven days to resign from the affairs of the association to an interim committee to run its affairs pending when a new election will be conducted.

According to him, “It is tragic to point out that the desecration of our faith by CAN did not just begin in these recent days. It has been on for a while now.

“The politicisation of Christianity began under the previous leadership of Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, who sadly became the official spokesperson for the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and former President Goodluck Jonathan.

“Things got so ugly that the President of CAN became an errand boy. Note, not just any errand boy but one that was being sent to buy weapons and launder money.

“CAN’s leadership under the current President, Reverend Supo Ayokunle, was highly anticipated to be reformists enough to return the association to its lost glory, for it to carry out a practically cleansing of CAN to free it of the dirt clinging to it from wallowing in the mire with swine.

“Our hope in Reverend Ayokunle being able to deliver CAN from the shackles of materialism have been dashed. Beyond having our hopes dashed we are being made despondent because under his leadership ‘the high places were not taken away’ but they were rather made higher. Truth is being sacrificed on individual private altars built to glorify self.

“On top of whatever we, at that time, accused the Pastor Oritsejafor leadership of, Reverend Ayokunle’s tenure has visited the affliction on Christendom a thousand folds.

“Not only did he continue to desecrate the divine mandate of the association by deploying it as an arm of the PDP he has added the evil of hatred by actively promoting Islamophobia.

“CAN overnight became a vehicle for teaching believers to hate other humans that made after the likeness of God image simply on account of their present religious subscription.

“Even when we differ from Muslims in terms of creeds, the solution is not to promote hatred that can lead to crisis that would lead to the shedding of innocent blood on both sides.