We’ve Right To Decide Whom To Support, Apostle Oguntimehin Tells CAN

Ojimaojo Yunus Abuja

The President of Nigeria Coalition of Pastors for Good Leaders (NCPGL ), Apostle Babatunde Oguntimehin, has appealed to Special Assistants on Media to Christian Association of Nigeria(CAN), Luminous Jannamike, to stop addressing them as faceless pastors.

Jannamike said “The message is very simple and clear. We still stand on our earlier stance of ‘No to the same-faith ticket.’ As far as we are concerned, they are a faceless group. We can’t really be seen joining issues with them. They are free to do what they want to do.”

But reacting in an interview with selected journalists in Abuja on Monday, Apostle Oguntumehin said we are not against CAN and they should stop calling faceless pastors because we are on the ground and we are ready to put more

“We are not faceless pastors but an apostle and I urge us to be careful in our choice of words as men and women of God.

“As stated in the Bible: it’s not what goes to us that defines us, but what comes out of us. I can’t say anything against them because they are our fathers and an appeal to the Special Assistants to the president not to be using such words against men of God.

“We believe that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is the only person that can win the forthcoming election 2023 and am using this medium to appeal to them not to call us faceless pastors but men of God and Christians like them and we have the right to come out and decide who to support.

“We have our right to participate and choose who to vote and we should not be condemned by our actions in choosing the candidate of our choice by the CAN President”, he said.

Continuing, he said we are not to drag anything with the Christian Association of Nigerian (CAN) our own is to support Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of All progressive congress (APC) to gather votes for him coming 2023 election.

Oguntimehin said we held town hall meetings with about 630 pastors and those pastors are heads of churches and some are general overseas that are having about 5 or 10 churches under them

“In my church, I have about 750 members, some with 1,000 some with 2,000 even more and some with fewer members because we are dealing with grass root pastors that are having arsenal connection with their followers that can talk to them in terms of a candidate to vote.

” We can vote Bola Ahmed Tinubu through our churches with the numbers of pastors we are having across the country and not Abuja alone and that’s the reason we are planning for Abuja summit where we would bring in all the states executive and we are expecting like 3,000 pastors in attendance.”