RECAP Calls for Greater Public Engagement, Activates Jigawa, Kano, Katsina Branches
By Tinu Bello
The Responsible Engagement and Citizenship Advancement Programme (RECAP) has called on professionals and accomplished members of White Garment churches across Nigeria to become more actively involved in public affairs, leadership, and national development.
The call was made by the National President of RECAP, Pastor Prof. Adebayo Adeniji, JP, MCIA, PhD, in a national message urging members of the White Garment family to make greater use of their intellectual and professional capacity in the service of the nation.
The call coincided with the activation of RECAP branches in Jigawa, Kano and Katsina States over the weekend, in addition to the initial four, marking a further expansion of the movement’s structures and its drive to mobilise members across different parts of the country.
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Adeniji said the expansion of the movement must be accompanied by a deliberate effort to identify and deploy competent professionals into leadership, policy, and civic engagement.
According to him, one of the major challenges confronting White Garment churches is not a lack of educated or accomplished members but the failure to intentionally mobilise them for meaningful participation in public affairs and political engagement.
He noted that the churches have professors, doctors, lawyers, engineers, academics, business executives, technocrats, administrators, and other highly accomplished professionals who, in many cases, remain on the sidelines while others speak and act on behalf of their communities.
Adeniji argued that this situation had contributed to a perception that White Garment churches lack sufficient intellectual capacity or educational strength to contribute meaningfully to national discourse.
He said the time had come to challenge that perception by encouraging the most experienced and accomplished members of the churches to take their place in the affairs of the nation.
“The time has come for our brightest minds, most experienced professionals, and accomplished leaders to step forward and take their place in the affairs of our nation,” he said.
He described RECAP as more than a political support movement, stressing that the organisation was established as a platform for responsible citizenship, values-driven leadership, policy engagement, and national transformation.
The RECAP president called on professors and academics, medical practitioners, lawyers, engineers and technologists, business leaders and entrepreneurs, public servants, administrators, youth professionals, innovators, clergy and spiritual leaders to actively participate in the organisation’s structures and leadership.
“Our future cannot be entrusted solely to the willing; it must also involve the capable,” Adeniji said.
He urged RECAP chapters to identify their most capable members and encourage professionals within congregations to participate actively in the movement.
The latest activation of structures in Jigawa, Kano, and Katsina is expected to strengthen RECAP’s presence in the North-west and provide a platform for greater mobilisation and engagement among members of White Garment churches in the three states.
The development also comes as RECAP seeks to position its members for what it describes as strategic engagement with national development.
Adeniji maintained that White Garment churches possess the numbers, influence, and intellectual capacity required to make a stronger contribution to the country’s affairs, but argued that these resources must be organised and deliberately deployed.
“Our churches possess the numbers. Our churches possess the influence. Our churches possess the intellectual capacity. What remains is the collective will to engage,” he said.
He therefore called on congregations to support competent leadership and encouraged members to bring excellence, integrity, competence, and godly values into the public space.
The RECAP leadership said the movement’s expansion should not be measured only by the number of chapters established but also by the quality of professionals and leaders being mobilised to contribute to public discourse and national development.
The organisation’s message signals an attempt to move White Garment participation in public affairs beyond numerical strength towards structured civic and leadership engagement.
Adeniji declared that what he described as an era of underrepresentation should give way to a period of strategic engagement, with RECAP seeking to redefine the place of White Garment churches in Nigeria’s national development.
“Together, we shall redefine the place of White Garment Churches in national development,” he said.
The movement’s guiding message remains: “RECAP—From the Altar to the Nation.”