The President of Christians Association of Nigeria(CAN) Archbishop Daniel Okoh has urged the leaders at all levels to put aside their personal interests, rather they should work together to fight insecurity and hunger currently bedeviling the country.

Dr Okoh speaking at events organized to inaugurate newly elected North-East CAN Executive members held in Maiduguri on Tuesday.

Okoh who represented by National Director of Education Youths and Women CAN, Rev Ozumba Emmanuel decried that northeast region and entire nation now being faced with untold crises due to Boko Haram terrorists, Banditry and economic hardship.

“Today Nigeria has been bedeviled by some many challenges of insecurity that has brought many setbacks and northeast has been the worst hit by crisis. Today insecurity is now general things everywhere and we as Christians must ensure we preach peaceful coexistence in respect of our religions, beliefs, tribes and ethnicity.

“I urge the leaders to put aside personal interests and work together to restore peace, peace is not one man affairs, it is an affair that everybody must be involved in. There is good leadership without good followership; when the people are hungry they can’t be able to understand the government. So we leaders should work in the interest of the common man.

“I urge the new zonal executives to be united and fight for justice, justice doesn’t require you are fighting for your religion, it means when you are fighting justice for the interest of common man, today we need voices, we need men that are courageous enough to speak about the injustice that is going on in our nation, and we need people who will speak to power. To point out the area where the government needs to improve on welfare and development the society,”he said.

In his acceptance speech, the New North-East CAN Chairman, Most Rev. Mohammed Naga said the northeast zone has gone through several challenges of insurgency and economic hardship suffered by already overstretched people.

“We are appealing to our governors to continue cautioning this unwarranted hardship. Our people have been dependent on the strength God has given them, we urge our security operatives to continue doing their best in carving this unrest, so that people can have the air of  freedom to go about their daily legitimate business.”Naga urged.

The State Chairman (CAN) Most Rev John Bakeni urged the newly inaugurated executives to work tirelessly towards the common good of the Christian community and people of the region.

Other northeast CAN members inaugurated include Chaplain Jechonia Gilbert, Vice Chairman; Apostle Sunday, Secretary; Rev Fr. Emmanuel Obidah, Assistant Sec.; Rev Dr Dauda Zambuk, Treasurer amongst.