Emmanuel Bwacha, senate deputy
minority leader, says incompetent politicians are responsible for the
ethno-religious crisis in Nigeria.
In an interview with NAN on
Wednesday, Bwacha, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said 80
percent of politicians capitalise on ethnic and religious differences to get
elected.
He urged the electorate,
particularly residents of Taraba state, to vote wisely so as to prevent “wicked
politicians from using religion to score cheap political goals”.
“I want to say clearly that this
situation is not peculiar to Taraba state, it is a national problem,” he said.
“It is a national problem that is
fuelled by bad leadership because when people have a lot of inadequacies and
they are suffering from complex, they often resort to either religion or
ethnocentrism and geo-politics.
“And this will continue to play
because a lot of people come to contest election not because they have the
capacity but because they want to capitalise on tribe or religion as a tool to
advance their political interest. 80 percent of most of our politicians depend
on this because most of them don’t have the capacity, they are hanging on to
primordial sentiments and we will continue to suffer this problem.”
The lawmaker warned fellow
politicians to stop promoting religious politics because “God cherishes just
and fair leaders not religious bigot”.
“There are unserious Muslims and
unserious Christians and in the category of these unserious ones, they actually
constitute the troublemakers,” he said.
“Both Muslims and Christians meet
to steal the commonwealth and later they will be talking about religion.
“Most of them are criminals and
this is the problem we have in this country. Until people understand this, the
nation cannot move forward
“God is not a god of religious
politics. You see Christians and Muslims coming together to steal money from
the treasury and they go the village and preach hatred and deepen the
division.”
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