Renewed Hope Advocates (RHA), a pro-Bola Tinubu presidential organisation, has advised 10th National Assembly leadership candidates to shun religion and ethnicity-based campaigns since they are futile.
The group’s director-general, Olufemi-Daniels Agbaoku, said the Senate President and House Speaker campaigns’ deliberate exploitation of religion and ethnicity was alarming.
“One of the greatest takeaways from the election of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is that it has defeated religion in the politics of our nation with his Muslim-Muslim ticket, and all we have to do now is sustain that effort and take out that enemy of Nigeria (religion) from her politics.
After all, we’ve had the same religious leadership at the National Assembly before, and heaven didn’t fall. Muslims never complained. Religious politics is defeatist. Therefore, Christians cannot keep stoking it.
“David Mark and Ike Ekweremadu, both Christians, led the National Assembly in the not-too-distant past. The 10th National Assembly allows us to go on.”
Agbaoku stated, “If we recall, fielding a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket looked the largest hurdle for Asiwaju Tinubu, but the guy stood his ground because he recognised what harm religion has done to the fabric of our politics, and God finally used him to destroy that beast in our politics.
The 10th National Assembly election is part of the 2023 run, and the federal legislature is a separate and complementary branch of government. It should pick the finest for the nation. He continued, “This is getting past crude religion and ethnic politics.”
