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| Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor |
A top member of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria
on Wednesday disagreed with the Delta State Muslim Council over
comments that the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria,
Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, was inciting Christians against Muslims.
The DSMC spokesman, Alhaji Sadiq Musa, had criticised
comments credited to the CAN boss that Christians should defend
themselves against Boko Haram, describing them as inciting.
But Okah, a member of the National Advisory Council
of the PFN and immediate past Chairman of the Christian body in the
state, in a statement, frowned on Musa’s statement, saying it was
capable of unsettling the existing peace between Muslims and Christians
in the state.
The Bishop of the Flock of Christ Mission added that
the comments credited to the Muslim leader tended to “cast aspersions”
on Oritsejafor.
He clarified that the call by the CAN boss on
Christians in the North to defend themselves against Boko Haram attacks
was to take necessary “precautionary and security measures’’ to avoid
being killed and not an incitement to fight.
Okah also expressed disappointment at Musa’s demand
for amnesty for Boko Haram members like the Niger Delta militants,
saying the “massive unprovoked bloodshed’’ perpetrated by the Islamic
sect was never carried out by the Niger Delta militants.
He said, “The way the spokesman for the Delta State
Muslim Council spoke presented him as a sympathiser of Boko Haram. We
are calling on security agencies to place him under surveillance.
Source: PUNCH
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