2023: Public Praying Should Be Banned Fashola Says As He Endorses Tinubu

Babatunde Fashola, SAN, Nigeria’s Minister of Works and Housing, has called for a ban on public praying and other religious practices in his first open endorsement of the Muslim-Muslim ticket flown by All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. 

According to Fashola, there are too many public practices of religion and no nation has ever survived valorising religion, he added that practices such as praying in the public should stop and religion should be practiced only in religious centres, in the hearts of individuals and at homes.

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The former Governor of Lagos State made this known on Channels Television while commenting on the Muslim-Muslim ticket adopted by Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

Fashola, pointed out that the country currently has a Christian Vice President and a Muslim President currently in charge, yet people are being killed in churches and in the mosques.

According to him, “My position about religion has been made known on different platforms. I think religion should leave the public space and go back to where it belongs… to the homes and the religious centres.

“There’s too much religion in our public lives. No nation has survived by valorising religion.

“It’s a private thing. Praying in the public and all that should stop …there have been a Christian vice president [Prof. Yemi Osinbajo] under a Muslim President [Muhammadu Buhari] and sadly people were killed in the church, priests were murdered.

“Same way Muslims have been murdered. Neither the President nor the vice president wants these things to occur. But it has nothing to do with our faiths. Those who do it in the name of our faith are not members of our faith.

“In my own opinion, Asiwaju is the best person to drive that vehicle because I’ve worked with him at very close quarters and I know his capacity. I know his tenacity…”

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