Plan to License Preachers: Lawmakers, Governors, Others Urged to Stop El-Rufai

The Chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Akwa Ibom State branch, Archbishop Cletus Bassey, has enjoined the National Assembly to stop the religious bill sent by Governor Nasir El-Rufai to the House of Assembly.

He said this is necessary to prevent him from throwing Kaduna State and the country into crisis.

According to a report by The Nation on Thursday, the cleric urged Nigerians to prevail on the governor to forget the idea of licensing pastors and regulating Christian worship, as he seeks to achieve with his proposed bill.

He was addressing reporters to render his stewardship, preparatory to his handing over to a new chairman to be elected today.

Archbishop Bassey advised Christian governors and lawyers to implore El-Rufai to withdraw the bill.

He said there is freedom of worship as guaranteed by the constitution.

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