The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor is in the news again. This time, it's not about his private jet said to be engaged in money landering and arms smuggling. It's about a more national issue of finding a lasting peace to the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast Nigeria.
Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor has called on the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, to write to the members of Boko Haram to stop their attacks just as he did to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Sultan Abubakar is the President of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (SCIA) in Nigeria, an umbrella organization for all muslims similar to the CAN.
Pastor Oritsejafor made this call on Monday, 24 November at a 2-day meeting in Abuja with Senior Special Assistants on Religious Affairs to all State Governors.
"His Eminence said he wrote a letter to ISIS, I have to truly congratulate you for that because that was a very good move. I didn’t know about it until today and I am so glad it happened. But I want to appeal that you also write to Boko Haram because Boko Haram is worst than ISIS.
They have killed more people than ISIS, they have caused more atrocities than ISIS; they need to be written to as well, it is very important it will help. I have made an appeal several times that there are some of our leaders who must come together, religious, political and traditional. They must come and discuss." he said
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