Daniel Okoh elected Christian Association of Nigeria President
The Most Rev. Daniel Chukwudumebi Okoh has been chosen to serve as the new president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN).
The news was announced in a statement by CAN General Secretary Joseph Daramola.
The supreme Christian church will host a general assembly on Wednesday to inaugurate the new leadership.
Rev. Samson Olusupo Ayokunle, the outgoing president, will leave office following the assembly.
Okoh, commonly known as Nation Builders, is the general superintendent of Christ Holy Church (Odozi-Obodo).
He was raised a Christian and is a native of Ndoni in the Rivers region’s Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area. He was born on November 12, 1963, in Kano.
Okoh and Ngozi have four children together and are blessed. In Onitsha, Anambra, he went to Dennis Memorial Grammar School.
The clergyman earned his degree in political science and education in 1988 from the University of Port Harcourt, where he had also studied.
The religious leader received a Theology diploma from Christ Holy Church Seminary in Onitsha.
Okoh served as CAN National Vice-President, Nigerian National President of the Organization of African Instituted Churches (OAIC), and Chairman of the OAIC (2007-2013).
One of the six delegates that represented CAN at the National Political Reform Conference in 2005 was the archbishop.
Sa’ad Abubakar, the Sultan of Sokoto, and Okoh, a board member of the African Council of Religious Leaders, will now co-chair the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC).
