by S’ola Filani

The National body of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has aborted the secret wedding Aishat (Charity) Uzoechina – the 26-year-old daughter of Pastor Raymond Uzoechina, who converted to Islam last year – to her Muslim hubby, Barrister Tijani.

Uzoechina’s wedding was called off for making plans to marry a Muslim without her parents’ consent.

Vanguard reports that the secret plan was halted only hours to the wedding when a letter was written by the National body of CAN to its Niger State wing to investigate the matter and make its findings available to appropriate quarters.

The stage was allegedly set for the wedding on Friday with Imams and other Muslim clerics in attendance when Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, after being consulted about the development ordered that the wedding should be aborted.

Niger State CAN Chairman, Dada, was said to have alerted the state Commissioner for Religious Affairs and the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice on the development, seeking to know what led to Charity’s proposed wedding especially without the consent of her parents.

The Commissioners, it was gathered, could not give satisfactory answers and the matter was taken before the deputy governor, Ibeto, for further deliberation.

Charity was admitted into the Department of Public Administration of the Federal Polytechnic, Bida, Niger state. The lady has maintained that she is not being forced into the Islamic religion saying it is her life and therefore her choice to make.

“I did it on my own. Nobody forced me into it. Am I the first to convert to Muslim in Nigeria? I know it is people that are pushing my father and I am praying for him and other members of my family to know that this is the right religion,” she remarked last year.