Islamic advocacy group, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has accused the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), of being a disgrace to christendom as well as lying about not recognizing the “clergymen’ who attended the unveiling of the vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kashim Shettima in Abuja on Wednesday, IgbereTV reports
CAN had, in a statement shortly after the unveiling of Shettima by the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Shehu Yar’adua Convention Centre, described the several bishops and pastors who attended the unveiling as fake clerics who were not recognized by the Christian body.
But MURIC, in a statement by its Director-General, Prof. Ishaq Akintola on Friday, said by distancing itself from the ‘clergymen’, CAN had shown it was living in denial and ‘distancing themselves from the reality