Leave PFN alone, stakeholders warn CAN’S Adegbite

PENTECOSTAL stakeholders have called on the Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria ( CAN), Lagos Chapter, Bishop Stephen Adegbite, to leave Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria ( PFN), Lagos Chapter, alone and mind his business.

The stakeholders stated this, yesterday, in Lagos, while addressing newsmen on ‘ State of Our State ( Lagos); Our Stand!’, powered by Apostolic Roundtable.

Speaking through its leader, Bishop Edoro Ighalo, the group said CAN was known for playing to the gallery over time; hence, should not meddle in PFN affairs.

Ighalo said: "What has CAN got to do with PFN, other than PFN being the most financial contributor to CAN, and why is CAN interloping? What effort has CAN, spearheaded by one Bishop Stephen Adegbite, made to liaise with the upper echelon of PFN before he made the statement accruable to him."

Advising Adegbite, Ighalo said: "We are not here for CAN, which is known to have played to the gallery over time. The fact that some of us have kept quiet over time is not to say we are weaklings. Some of us run ministries with our own money and without collecting offerings and tithes. I don't take offerings and tithes. I run a Non- Governmental Organisation ( NGO) and I do everything by myself. So, nobody can tell me anything."

The cleric lamented that some people were trying to destabilise God's kingdom, which should not be allowed to happen.

He said: “We cannot allow destabilisation and ethnicity to play out in the Kingdom business. You cannot use the word, ' Lagos is for us'. Kingdom is for us all; we are not doing Lagos. Even Nigeria is running a Muslim- Muslim ticket and nobody is complaining. We are looking for the best. They told us that this is the best, we agreed that it is the best."

He condemned inciting statements and urged those bent on creating problems to desist from it.