Muslim-Muslim ticket is a plot to make Christians second-class citizens

The new leader of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Archbishop Daniel Okoh has said that the Muslim ticket embraced by the decision All Progressives Congress is a plot to make Christians peasants in the country.

In his acknowledgment discourse in Abuja after the General Assembly of CAN approved his political decision, Okoh said the trepidation was a result of the new happenings in the country.

He likewise said that it is coming when Christian pioneers accept that some part of political pioneers are not delicate to the different idea of our populace when certain choices are being made.

The new CAN President likewise approached President Buhari to end the bloodletting, kidnapping and general insecurity in all the geo-political zones of the country.

Okoh said;

“While thanking the President and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR), for his efforts to combat terrorism and banditry, I would like to appeal to His Excellency to end the bloodletting, kidnapping and general insecurity in all the geo-political zones of the country.

“I believe that government can do more to secure the lives and property given all the modern technology within its reach.

“Many Christians feel and have the genuine fear that there is a deliberate plan to remove the Christian faith from the scheme of things and make us second-class citizens in our own country – genuine fear borne out of the recent happenings in our polity i.e. the same-faith ticket in one of the major political parties in Nigeria despite the caution raised by CAN since two years ago.

“Whatever happens, no matter how many times our sensibilities are insulted, we must resolve to to make a positive impact on the political, economic and social systems of our dear nation."