The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai has asserted that it’s time to punish politicians causing religious divisions in the country, calling on Nigerians to
El-Rufai submitted that the 2023 elections would be used to punish politicians using religion as a tool to cause division.
He made this yesterday while commissioning the head office of the Sultan Foundation for Peace and Development.
The governor urged royal fathers to pray and ensure peaceful and credible elections in 2023.
He lamented that some politicians were using churches and religious centre for campaign.
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‘I think this election causes for us a very unique opportunity to take religion out of politics in Nigeria and punish those that are trying to use religion as a tool.
‘But some people are campaigning in churches, some are holding internal meetings with religious leaders to promote ethnic and religious division, it is the last thing Nigeria needs now at a time when the whole world is facing challenges ultra-nationalism and global supply chain disruption,’ he said.
Africa Today News, New York reports that lately, some politicians like the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, has been visiting some of the top most churches in Nigeria.
Meanwhile, the newly appointed Director General (DG) of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the Labour Party (LP), Akin Osuntokun has disclosed that former President Olusegun Obasanjo is ‘fully’ in support of the 2023 campaign for the LP presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
Asked if his appointment was based on the recommendation of the former president, Osuntokun said, ‘You’ll have to ask the presidential candidate, my principal, whether it was an Obasanjo slot and that was how the position was filled.
‘Don’t forget that I was the immediate zonal coordinator of the campaign in South-West, so this is essentially an elevation. It is not that I’m just joining the campaign organisation, but if you say that it’s Obasanjo’s slot, people have different perceptions and you’re at liberty to say so.’
The campaign DG argued that the focus should not be on who is behind his appointment, but what he brings to the table.