AGAIN, the Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has knocked President Muhammadu Buhari’s fight against corruption, citing nepotism as one major factor that has characterised his administration in the last seven and half years.
On the President’s numerous trips to a United Kingdom (UK) hospital for medical treatment, Kukah lamented that Buhari would be leaving office in good health, while Nigerians remain in pain due to his failure to fulfill his promises to fix the country, adding: “I speak for myself and Nigerians when I say, we thank God that He mercifully restored you to good health.
“We know that you are healthier now than you were before. We can see it in the spring in your steps, the thousands of miles you have continued to cover as you travel abroad. May God give you more years of good health.
“However, I also wish that millions of our citizens had a chance to enjoy just a fraction of your own health by a measurable improvement in the quality of health care in our country.”
The clergyman, however, commended Buhari’s efforts in the area of infrastructure, where he acknowledged there has been a measurable improvement in the landscape, especially in the area of roads.
In his Christmas message at St. Mary Catholic Church, Sokoto, titled, ‘Let us turn a new leaf,’ the fiery bishop stated: “It is sad that despite your lofty promises, you are leaving us far more vulnerable than when you came; that the corruption we thought would be fought has become a Leviathan and sadly, a consequence of a government marked by nepotism.
“In my Christmas Message last year, I pointed out the fact that you had breached the constitution by your failure to honour and adhere to the federal character provisions of our constitution. The evidence is all before us all.
“Nepotism is a cancer, which has consumed us in the last few years. We have paid the price of nepotism entrusting power into the hands of mediocres who operate as a cult and see power purely as an extension of the family heirloom.
“In my Easter Message last year (April 4, 2021), titled, ‘Before Our Glory Departs,’ I drew attention to the urgent need for us to reclaim our glory, because it was slipping away from our hands. Before our eyes, the notion of patriotism was becoming alien in the minds of our young people.
“Before our eyes, the capital letters that spelt Nigeria are falling to the pressures and irruptive forces of primal ethno-religious nationalisms. Before our eyes, a dubious jihadist culture has held our nation to ransom with the government simply looking away.”
