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Oritsejafor backs call for SNC

By staff 09/02/2012 00:53:00

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By Sam Eyoboka & Olayinka Latona

LAGOS - FORTY-EIGHT hours after the National Summit Group voted for a national conference to restructure the country into a true federal state, the National President of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor has given his nod for the proposal, arguing that if talking would tear the nation apart, then we were not made to be one.

Speaking at the fourth Bible Society of Nigeria’s annual lecture at the NIIA, Lagos, Pastor Oritsejafor said the major challenge facing Nigerian governments today was monumental corruption, stressing that the problem with the country was that Nigerians were hypocrites who pretended not to know that what is going on in the nation was wrong.

Answering questions from newsmen, he said: “We pretend not to know that what is going on is wrong. We all know it is wrong but we pretend not to know that it is happening. Not until we are able to face the truth…we are talking about peace, there cannot be peace without justice and there cannot be justice without the truth.

He said: “Truth is what feeds justice and not until Nigerians, as a people, will sit up and say we must face the truth, there will be no genuine development. That is why I support those who are calling for a national conference. You may call it any name you want, but I think all the nationalities should come together and dialogue on the way forward.

Earlier, the guest lecturer, President of the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria, Chief Lugard Aimiuwu described the transformation agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan as what the nation had been clamouring for, stressing, however, that there was yet any sign to believe that the economic team would address the real issues involved.

Speaking on the topic: “True democracy: A catalyst for accountability in governance,” Chief Aimiuwu averred that the election of President Jonathan from his humble background was in itself transformational, but it does not end there.

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