Nigerians Should Talk About Governance Challenges, Not Religion – Dele Alake

The one-ime Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Dele Alake has written from the United States, saying that rather than waste energy on the Muslim-Muslim debate, Nigerians should seriously interrogate more germane governance issues.

These, according to him, are security, infrastructure, economy etc vis a vis the capacity, capabilities, track record, experience, vision, knowledge and courage of the presidential contenders.” They are, according to him, more important than the “sabre rattling, unedifying, strictly unproductive controversy over the religious tag of a ticket!” PM NEWS reports. Information Guide Nigeria

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He argued further that the current debate has nothing to do with the ordinary Christians who are groaning under the yoke of poverty.

In his words: “And that is why the controversy over a Muslim-Muslim ticket, Christian -Christian ticket or any same-faith permutation is so provocatively out of tune with the needs of a country ridden with poverty and insecurity and threatened by the daredevilry of those who sold the country seeking to return to plunder.

“Who gains from the current faith-induced anti-Tinubu campaign? Certainly, not the millions of devout parishioners and congregants whose meek surrender to fate and hope of a better tomorrow lies in the conviction that Christ has died for their sins. They know they will not be invited to the Villa to attend service with the Chaplain or share Holy Communion with ministers and permanent secretaries. They know they will not leverage on any pastoral claim to the earthly acquisition of wealth to ask for contracts or juicy appointments. And they know that when state banquets or weddings of the President’s children hold, they would be content to watch their leaders laugh and grin excitedly in conversations with the high and the mighty. jamb results

“The presidential election is crucial but it will take place simultaneously with governorship, national, and house of assembly elections. These are the tents that people will return to when the elections take place in February. Therefore, there is no basis for the zero-sum tension that those who lost out in the vice presidency bid are orchestrating. It’s about time Nigeria broke the chains tying her economic, political, social, and spiritual progress.”

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