Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Trust (PT), has chided politicians, who are making spurious promises for the 2023 elections.
Speaking in Lagos while hosting a brainstorming session on finding national consensus over the state of the nation, Olawepo-Hashim slammed those in high offices who are dangling 2023 presidential ticket as a political carrot, describing them as “agents of ethnic balkanisation and political retrogression.”
Hashim warned that the trend was an unwitting attempt at heating up the Nigerian politics ahead of the polls proper.
The presidential hopeful, who alerted the nation to the emerging deterioration of standard and norms in high offices, said it was alarming that the vice president of the nation was allegedly leading the ethnicisation campaign.
Hashim wondered why the high office of vice president should be dragged in the mud of tribal bigotry.
“That reprehensible statement promising 2023 presidency to the South West should never have emanated from the office of the vice president .That office transcends tribal thinking. The presidency is and should be a rallying point for all Nigerians irrespective of tribes or religions,” Olawepo-Hashim said.
He pointed out that tribal campaign hinged on 2023 as a promissory note confirmed the shallowness of political discourse as issue based campaigns have been jettisoned by the two mainstream political parties, warning that “Nigerians have grown beyond this bigotry through inter-marriage, electoral endorsement and business union.
“As early as first republic, the TIV people elected a Kanuri man as their representative to the Northern House of Assembly. In 1993, late Abiola beat Bashir Tofa in Kano. Today so disappointedly, some top leaders, instead of building on our achievements in the area of national unity, are busy pushing to split and reopen old animosity and rancour among our people.”
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Source: Daily Independent
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