The Youth Wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria has lamented the non conduct of elections into the various positions of the association since the dissolution of the national leadership.
The leadership, according to the aggrieved members, was dissolved in July 2014 as well as suspended the YOWICAN by-laws to give way for election of a new leadership in the same month but this has not happened.
The Association is accusing the National Directorate of Youth and Women of taking advantage of the vacuum created to take charge of the youth activities as against the provisions of the 2004 CAN constitution.
The Interim National President of YOWICAN, Ekiye C. Ekiye, at a news briefing on Friday stressed that the CAN youths have been subjected to shift the goal post by the Youth Director who is not a youth and seems not to understand the working of CAN constitution.
In his speech, Ekiye said: “Our leadership is borne out of necessity for youth to have a viable democratic setting and we want to discourage acrimony.
“It is unfortunate that men who are greedy, disrespectful to the future and do not mean well to Christian youths, we have decided to invade their greed to achieve a cheap political goal.
“We understand that the National Directorate of Youth and Women are not ready to conduct elections to the youth office to give him room to appoint non credible youth as coordinators to be collecting money from politicians in place of substantive leadership against the interest of the entire christians Youth of Nigeria.”
Ekiye noted that the youths have lost confidence in the Director, Apostle A. Fabole, for his inability to provide advice, encouragement and conduct elections for the Christian youths.
The youths however commended the competent and credible leadership of the National President of CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, for standing and speaking the voice of the church nationwide.
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