CAN blames Nigeria’s woes on ‘distorted sense of values’

Churches successful Nigeria nether the umbrella of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, person shared their sentiment connected wherefore the state has not moved guardant since Independence successful 1960.

Popular churches specified arsenic the Anglican, Catholic, Methodist, Deeper Life, Redeemed Christian Church of God, among galore others came unneurotic astatine Transcorp Hilton Hotel successful mentation for Christ for Nations crusade to beryllium held successful Abuja to commune and question salvation of Nigeria.

Members of the FCT CAN enactment astatine the lawsuit see Dr John Daku, Executive Director, Africa, Christ for All Nations, Archbishop John Daniel, the Deputy President, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, and Rev. Dr. Williams Okoye, All Christian Fellowship.

“At Independence of the federation Nigeria, galore developed nations believed that wrong a fewer years, Nigeria would articulation the league of developed nations,” Rev. Dr Okoye said portion fielding questions from journalists.

“But sixty-plus years later, Nigeria inactive struggles. The crushed is due to the fact that of our distorted consciousness of value. Any nations that are developed, whitethorn person developed based connected their values.

“If you look astatine a federation similar Singapore, God gave them a person and due to the fact that of the halfway values Lee Juan Yew advocated, Singapore was transformed from a 3rd satellite state to a archetypal satellite state wrong the abstraction of 20 years.

“So, 1 of the things we basal to payment done this crusade is that we’re going to reorientate our radical to fto them cognize that things of interior worth indispensable person preeminence successful our lives.

“Today we worship wealth successful Nigeria. I was conscionable watching a study connected societal media precocious wherever a young lad was told that helium would go a millionaire if helium buried his parent live and helium took the parent and buried her alive.

“It’s due to the fact that of our distorted consciousness of value. But if the values and mindset of our radical are transformed, they’ll statesman to spot that we’re present to service God and humanity.

“Nigeria volition beryllium transformed and there’ll beryllium change. Nigeria volition determination forward. That’s what we basal to payment from.”

CAN blames Nigeria’s woes connected ‘distorted consciousness of values’