Methodist Church Tasks Tinubu On Campaign Promises

Against the backdrop of a successful transition  in the country, the Methodist Church Nigeria has urged the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration to implement its campaign promises to Nigerians.

 The church specifically demanded that the Tinubu/Shettima administration, as well as other elective office holders  run an “all-embracing,  detribalised and non-religion based” government.

 It promised to continue to pray to God to grant the duo the wisdom and insight to pilot the affairs of Nigeria.

 These were contained in a communique issued by the Diocese of Remo after its 32nd synod which ended yesterday in Sagamu township of Sagamu local government area of Ogun State.

In the communique signed by the trio of the diocesan chairman, synod secretary and lay president: Rt. Revd. J. M. Bamidele Ibikunle; Very Revd. Jacob Ayedona and Akinola O. Soname respectively, the church said the era of politicians not fulfilling their camping promises should be discouraged, while an effective monitoring system that will ensure “responsibility and accountability for effective governance” be established.

“Our politics must be based on core fundamental issues of nation-building, social integration, community participation, love, qualification, capacity and experience and not on religious and tribal sentiments”.

 In the communique, the church also expressed  concern over the rising inflation in the country which it said derived its link from “the poorly executed new naira note swap policy with its attendant effects on cost of food items and called on the federal government to evolve a workable strategy that will “completely alleviate the suffering associated with such”.