The General Church Council of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) has unanimously endorsed the ECWA President, Rev. Jeremiah Gado to vie for the position of the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). The Church prayed for his success in the coming election.
A communiqué issued at the weekend in Jos at the end of its 63rd General Church Council Meeting, the Council observed that the ECWA/TEKAN bloc of the Association has never occupied the seat of the Association’s president and in line with CAN’s rotational principle, Rev. Gado should vie for the seat.
The Council also cautioned the Kaduna State government against the passage of the proposed Religious Bill which the church views as containing lots of flaws and raises fears, concerns and contradiction that negate Sections 38 and 39 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to citizen’s right to worship.
According to the communiqué signed by Rev. Jeremiah Gado and Rev. Samuel Kunhiyop, the church’s president and General Secretary respectively, the Council further tasked the Federal Government in its fight against corruption to pursue it to a logical conclusion.
The duo, while commending the Federal Government and security agencies in routing the insurgents, however, decried the inability to rescue and reunite to their families, the over 200 Chibok girls abducted from their school over two years ago. [myad]
