The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has endorsed Abuja-based lawyer, Chief Joe Gadzama, for the presidential election of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).
Special Assistant, Media and Communications to the CAN President, Pastor Adebayo Oladeji, made this known in a statement on Thursday.
According to the statement, on the 1st of July, the legal luminary, paid a courtesy visit to CAN during the National Executive Committee meeting in Ibadan where CAN President His Eminence, Rev. Dr. Samson Olasupo Ayokunle received him with joy.
Oladeji said the Learned Silk had informed them of his intentions to contest for the office of NBA President and solicited for their prayers and moral support.
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He said: “In his response, the CAN President recalled his regular support for the Association especially in the quest to exempt churches from the controversial Company’s Allied Matters Act (CAMA). The Association then resolved to be praying for his success and asked the General Secretary to convey its decision to the Christian Lawyers’ Fellowship of Nigeria (CLASFON).
“Thus in a letter of 1 July, 2022, written to the leadership of the Christian Lawyers’ Fellowship of Nigeria (CLASFON) and signed by the General Secretary of CAN, Barrister Joseph Bade Daramola, the Association urges the Fellowship to adopt Gadzama as their candidate for the NBA President in the coming election.”
The statement quoted the CAN General Secretary saying: “He (Gadzama) has solicited for CAN’s support and we have accepted and adopted him as the candidate for the election. We hereby request you to adopt him as your candidate as well. You may recall that, Joe Gadzama is that one man that has rendered unequivocal services to the Christian body in Nigeria and the time has come for us to reciprocate this gesture of his.”
Gadzama is the lead Counsel for CAN in the suit filed against the CAC calling for the exemption of churches from the public institutions that the government can be monitoring and supervising.