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Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, says politicians must avoid misguided utterances on religion during campaigns for the 2023 general election.

According to a statement by Kelvin Ebiri, special assistant on media to the governor, Wike spoke on Thursday when he hosted Okon Effiong, the new Rivers commissioner of police, in Port Harcourt, the state capital.

He said it is important that every government ensures the protection of the lives and properties of its citizens, adding that failure to do so indicates they have failed.

“We believe we owe this country and we must also stop this politics of religion so that we don’t instigate crisis and violence. You must go and tell the people what you can do, what we can offer,” he said.

“For me, there cannot be any good governance without the protection of life and property. Nobody can talk about good governance when there is insecurity everywhere.

“If you cannot protect your citizens, you have no need to talk about governance, because if you’re doing roads, people must be alive to use the road. If you’re building good school, people must be alive to go to school.

“So, it is key that you owe your citizens the protection of their lives and property. And so, for us as a government, that is the sole aim of being in government.”

https://www.thecable.ng/wike-politics-of-religion-must-stop-campaigns-should-focus-on-performance

lhordspy:
Wike dont need to tell anybody anything. They are all amateur political newbies. They have never engaged in politics prior to this. So they think politics is won on a platter of emotional religious victimization card. Lol.

Where is their religion tactics going to come in play? I ask.
The south-west? - with Oyetola's case undecided. If Adeleke is going to take the mantle of leadership. That will translate to no-Muslim governor in the whole south-west, even in Tinubu's Lagos; for the past two administrations now.

So is it this same South-west they are expecting their religious partioning to work?

Or is it North: since the inception of democracy the North votes has always been influenced by a key political figure. Their undecided voters, block voters all have a political god, who tell them who to vote for.it has always been tradition, so why think a cheap religious segregation tactics will change that now?

2023, will school alot of political newbies about politics.