Renewed Hope Advocates (RHA), a pro-Bola Tinubu presidency group, has cautioned contenders for leadership positions in the 10th National Assembly against religion and ethnicity-based campaigns.
Its Director-General, Olufemi-Daniels Agbaoku, in a statement, said the direction of the campaigns for the Senate presidency and the House speakership was becoming disturbing due to religion and ethnicity.
“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, this is not the first time we’re having same faith leadership at the National Assembly and heaven did not fall. In fact, the Muslims never made a fuss of it. But the Christians cannot continue to stoke religion politics, because it is nothing but defeatist.
“In our not-too-distant-history, we had a David Mark and Ike Ekweremadu head the National Assembly leadership and both are Christians, who held their grounds without pandering to sentiments. We have to move past this and the 10th National Assembly provides the opportunity for that.
“If we recall, running a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket appeared the biggest challenge for Asiwaju Tinubu, but the man held his ground because he knew what damage religion has done to the fabric of our politics and God eventually used him to kill that monster in our politics,” the statement read in part.
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