Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has attacked the Bishop of
Sokoto Diocese, Rev. Fr. Hasan Kukah, over his suggestion that there would have
been a coup had a Southerner occupied the Nigerian seat of power in the last
five years
MURIC described the Bishop as a first class blackmailer in a
press statement issued on Monday signed by Professor Ishaq
Akintola, director of the organization.
The group berated Kukah, wondering why the cleric never
attacked former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who it accused of mass land
donation to churches during his time in office
The group said it was shocked by the vitriolic attack on
Islam as a religion by Kukah, accusing the Catholic Bishop of referring to
Islam as a violent religion.
MURIC said that by his comment, Bishop Kukah had called for
a coup and forceful removal of President Muhammadu Buhari from office.
According to MURIC, Kukah’s comment was “reckless,
inflammatory and unguarded. It is the most egregious, luciferous, serpentine
and diabolical statement of the year 2020. Hasan Mathew Kukah is ululating from
the wrong side of the pulpit.”
MURIC said that Bishop Kukah had always being in the habit
of trying to demarket any Muslim President, adding that it was disappointed
this statement came from no other but the secretary of Nigeria’s Peace
Committee.
“Kukah referred to Islam as violent but his fellow faithful,
Gana, has been training terrorists and killing Muslims in Benue for years.
Kukah lives in the heart of Islam and he has never been attacked. But how dare
you mock the North? Are you not part of that geographical entity?
“We can understand Kukah’s frustration. Import duty waivers
on every imported good, including private jets, are no longer available.
Neither are billion naira contracts at the snap of a finger. A new Sheriff is
in town. This is why Kukah has turned to a blackmailer nulli secundus.
“Kukah knows those who engage in favouritism but he has
chosen to be a pot calling the kettle black. Rev. Samson Olasupo Ayokunle,
president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) inadvertently revealed
the special favours rendered by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to Christians when he
was president.
“The revelation was made at Orita Mefa Baptist Church,
Ibadan, on Saturday, November 21, 2020 during the funeral service of Obasanjo’s
two-term Pastor, Rev. S. T. Ola Akande.
“The CAN president poured encomiums on Obasanjo for
favouring Christians during his regime. Among the special favours mentioned
were the mass land allocation to the Baptist mission at Kubwa, Abuja; another
land allocation to the Baptist in Festac town, Lagos; yet another land
allocation to the church in Satellite town and another at highbrow Ikoyi, also
for the church.
“No Muslim leader or Islamic organization has accused
Obasanjo of favouritism to date. Perhaps Kukah thinks God was asleep during the
regime of Obasanjo. But the garrulous bishop now has the temerity to remind Nigerians
that God does not sleep.
“Kukah’s reference to a coup is a Satanic innuendo. We are
aware that civilians have always been involved in coups in the past. Kukah’s
interest is therefore not something new.
“But why is Kukah just inciting it? He should be man enough
to spearehead it. Go ahead, Kukah, plan a coup. Who knows? You can be vice
president. Dare to struggle. Dare to win,” he said.
Bishop Kukah had in his Christmas message to Nigerians
bemoaned the nepotism which, according to him, has characterised the government
of President and warned that although Christians will not fight back, but “God
does not sleep”.
The cleric claimed there could have been a coup or war in
the country if a non-Nothern Muslim was the president in the last five years and
did some of the things Buhari is doing.
Bishop Kukah is not alone in the allegation of nepotism
against the present administration. A former Minister of Aviation, Osita
Chidoka, had also at the weekend insisted that Buhari government had failed to
address the increasing insecurity and unemployment in the country.
Backing Kukah, on the alleged insensitivity of the current
government, Osita said Buhari had failed to address myriads of problems
bedeviling Nigeria.
However, in responding to Bishop Kukah’s allegations, the
Federal Government, through the Ministry of Information and Culture had urged
religious leaders to refrain from stoking the embers of hatred and disunity in
the country.
Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture n a
statement at the weekend, warned that resorting to scorched-earth rhetoric at
this time could trigger unintended consequences.
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