The Presidency on Sunday said the
Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, did not speak like a man of
God in his Easter message in which he attacked the President, Muhammadu
Buhari and his regime.
The Senior Special Assistant to
the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said this in a statement
titled “Kukah’s Buhari bashing is ungodly.”
Shehu said since Kukah professed
to be a man of God , ideology should not stand in the way of facts and
fairness.
He said the bishop played
politics in some of his submissions in the Easter message.
The statement read, “All citizens
have their individual ideologies, even their own versions of truth.
“But if you profess to being a
man of God, as Father Mathew Hassan Kukah does, ideology should not stand in
the way of facts and fairness.
“Father Kukah has said some
things that are inexplicable in his Easter massage.
“But, in saying that the Boko Haram
terrorism is worse than it was in 2015, he did not speak like a man of God.
Kukah should go to Borno or Adamawa to ask the citizens there the difference
between 2014 and 2021.
“Furthermore, the Hijab issue in
Kwara State on which he dwelt is a state matter which the courts of the land
have adjudicated. They are matters that have appeared in several states as far
back as the Obasanjo administration. In all of that, when and where did the
name of President Buhari feature?
He is playing partisan politics by
dragging the President into it.
“An administration that has
created a whole Ministry, for the first time in the country’s history,
appropriating enormous resources to it, to deal with issues of internally
displaced persons cannot, in all rightfulness be accused of not caring for
them.
“Some of the comments are no more
than a sample of the unrestrained rhetoric Fr. Kukah trades in, which he often
does in the guise of a homily.
“We urge well-meaning citizens to
continue to support the ongoing efforts by the administration to secure the
country and move it forward.”
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