The Senior Special Assistant on Students’ Engagement to the President, Comrade Sunday Asefon, has lauded the efforts of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for entrenching religious balancing in the country’s political system to promote national unity and cohesion.

The former President, National Association of Nigerian Students(NANS), urged Nigerians across religious lines to back Tinubu’s initiative in ensuring that and strides to make the country attains a society devoid of religious violence, intolerance and fanaticism.

This came as the presidential distributed rice palliative and cash gifts to Muslims in Ekiti State to support them during this Ramadan season, in alignment with the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Tinubu.

Asefon, who spoke while distributing the palliatives to the beneficiaries in Ado Ekiti, on Tuesday, applauded the Muslim Ummah for their solid backings for President Tinubu and Governor Biodun Oyebanji’s administrations.

The students’ leader, represented by former NANS/JCC Secretary, Ekiti axis, Com Sikiru Aderibigbe , affirmed that the high level of religious tolerance between the two major religious bodies accounted for the rapid development being savoured under President Tinubu and Oyebanji’s governments. 

Asefon challenged the Muslims to use the Ramadan season to offer prayer supplications for the development of the nation and pray to God to grant President Tinubu the required intellectual acumen and grace to usher in the expected economic and political rebirth during his reign. 

“By appointments and other socio economic and political considerations, President Tinubu has been fair to all religions. His aim to ensure that Nigeria becomes a nation where religious tolerance and cohesion can be entrenched, so that we can have a stable and friendly society.

“I am particularly happy that Governor Oyebanji is replicating same here in Ekiti State and it is in this template that we are working towards. I appreciate the Muslims for their dedication to national development and this Ramadan season provide another platform for them to demonstrate their fidelity and loyalty to the Nigerian nation through their prayers and support”. 

On the significance of the programme, the Chairman of Ado Local Government, Hon Bosun Osaloni, described Asefon as a good representative of Tinubu’s government and worthy Ambassador of the State, by displaying exemplary generosity in terms of empowerment and distribution of free JAMB forms to 500 students.

Osaloni said past records indicated that Asefon fought relentlessly to position the student population in a good spotlight across the nation, saying the gesture further indicated that he cares about the citizens of the country. 

He urged the Muslims to continually pray for President Tinubu and Governor Oyebanji, for Nigeria and Ekiti to witness unprecedented development during their tenures. 

“We appreciate President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for counting Sunday Asefon worthy of being appointed. This Ramadan gesture buttressed the fact that the Tinubu’s government and those he appointed think about the people and their welfare”.

At the programme, prayers were offered for President Tinubu, Governor Oyebanji, President’s son, Seyi Tinubu and Com Asefon, for their good deeds and humanitarian gestures in lifting the populace out of poverty.