CAN cautions Nigeria against fighting Israel

May 18, 2021453 views0

CAN cautions Nigeria against fighting Israel

2021-05-18T14:06:36+01:00

By Bede

The Christian Association of Nigeria, (CAN), has urged President Muhammadu Buhari not to align with the Arab Nations in fighting Israel in the ongoing Middle East violence as allegedly advocated by Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan due to Nigeria’s secularity.

Recall that Erdogan had reportedly called “for the international community to teach the necessary lesson to unlawful, unjust and unscrupulous Israel due to its attacks against Palestine, believing that Nigeria would show solidarity with the Palestinians in this rightful cause.”

In a statement, yesterday in Abuja, CAN’s National Secretary, Daramola Joseph Bade, said the association was worried that Nigeria has been wrongly labelled as an Islamic state because of its “unlawful membership of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) that has been making it take sides with the Palestinians since the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari, hence the reason the Turkish President asked Nigeria to identify with the Palestinians.”

He added: “On behalf of every Nigerian Christian, we call on the Federal Government to reverse itself on the support given to Palestine to date.

“For the record, millions of Nigerian Christians are in support of Israel against the position of Government. We, once again, remind the Federal Government and the National Assembly that Nigeria is not an Islamic state.”

Daramola urged the International community to intervene in the subsisting blood-letting in the Middle East without taking sides “if they truly want an enduring peace. We agree with the United States that Israel has the right to defend itself against external aggression. We see no reason Nigeria should take sides with either of the warring factions. ”