Matthew Kukah, Catholic bishop of
Sokoto diocese, says Muhammadu Sanusi II, the emir of Kano, is fighting to keep
the throne because of his blunt remarks.
The cleric made this remark on
Monday while speaking on a panel at the ongoing 25th edition of the Nigerian
Economic Summit Group (NESG) conference.
“The emir is here, he is still
fighting for his life because of the position that he has taken and all of you
sitting here know that it has literally become a matter to a particular course
because the things he is saying are not popular,” he said.
Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of
Kano state, had whittled down Sanusi’s powers by creating four emirates.
Nigerianeye had reported that the
monarch’s problem with Ganduje was linked to his critical comments in 2017 on
the award of contracts to Chinese companies by the state government and on the
governor’s foreign trips.
Commenting on the state of
educational facilities in states, Kukah said governors spent money on
pilgrimages and building religious centres rather than on education.
“The money that comes from the
centre to our states, who is it meant for?
“When you say education is on the
concurrent list, I worry that many of our states are providing opportunities
for incubators of hatred to grow. If you take northern Nigeria where there is
no single Christian or woman in the state assembly; women are lucky if they
become commissioners for women affairs.
“When the federal government says
that it doesn’t have a voice in what happens in distant states where governors
have taken a license to behave irresponsibly in terms of issues of education.”
Kukah, who claims to have five
secondary schools, said 60% of the students in his schools are Muslims.
“I have five secondary schools
and I have to rely on the little collection that I receive in my church to send
children to school and in many of the schools, 60% of the children are Muslims.
Can we have a conversation with the state governments, the answer is almost no.
“The point I am making is that I
think Northern Nigeria is a big culprit in a lot of the things that are wrong
with Nigeria and I say this with all sense of responsibility.”
The cleric said Nigeria has to
learn to manage its diversity before it can begin to plan the development of
its future.
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