Presidency 2023: Delta AATSG Chairman, Emiko blames wrong decisions on religious representation

Delta State Chairman of Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu Support Group, AATSG, Prince Stanley Oritsemolebi Emiko, says, “religious representation”, has been the main reason Nigeria has not been getting things right in terms of good governance as expected, “because Presidents or Vice Presidents, always see themselves as representatives of their religions and not Nigeria as a Nation”.

Prince Emiko, who described the choice of former Governor of Borno State and Chairman of Board of Trustees of Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu Support Group, Senator Kashim Shettima as Vice Presidential Candidate to the APC Presidential Flag-bearer, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu as “a well-thought-out choice”, posited: “I have always yearned for a leadership in Nigeria that can make decisions or policies that are far away from or outside the box of the everyday Nigerian conventional way of doing things, that has not given the Nation any positive results since implementation”.

In a press statement released in Warri, Delta State, Monday July 11, Prince Emiko, a two-time Delta State House of Assembly Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, asked: “We have been working with the ideology of having either Muslim/Christian or Christian/Muslim Presidential ticket, what about those who are not Christians or Muslims, are they also being represented or considered in such ideology?” 

According to him, Tinubu’s explanation of making decisions guided by the principles of competence, innovation, compassion, integrity, fairness and adherence to excellence, regarding his team, should be respected, “without regard to religion, region, or ethnic origin”, because, “these principles helped him assembled one of the most capable governing cabinets any state or this Nation, has ever seen”.

While alluding to the thought of the APC Presidential Candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, that religion, ethnicity and region cannot always and fully determine our path, to forge ahead as a Nation in terms of development and prosperity, Emiko, queried: “Why should we keep doing things in one particular way and expect a different result?”

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