BUHARI HAS RUN THE MOST NEPOTISTIC AND NARCISSISTIC GOVERNMENT IN NIGERIA- BISHOP KUKAH

BUHARI HAS BROUGHT NEPOTISM INTO MILITARY-KUKAH

The Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah, has thoroughly criticized President Muhammadu Buhari. According to the cleric, the President has not only relegated the national interest to the background, he has also introduced nepotism to the military. Kukah stated this in the sermon he delivered at the Good Shepherd Major Seminary, Kaukau, Kaduna State before the burial of Michael Nnadi, the 18 year old seminarian killed by kidnappers.

The slain seminarian was today laid to rest amid tears at the Good Shepherd Major Seminary, Kaukau, Kaduna.

Bishop Kukah recalled Buhari’s promise during the 2015 electioneering process. While campaigning in 2015, Buhari said if he was elected, the world would not have to worry about insecurity in Nigeria. He quoted the President as having said,, “I (Buhari) as a retired general and a former Head of State have always known about our soldiers. They are capable and they are well trained, patriotic, brave and always ready to do their duty. If I am elected President, the world will have no reason to worry about Nigeria. Nigeria will return to its stabilizing role in West Africa.

“We will pay sufficient attention to the welfare of our soldiers in and out of service. We will develop adequate and modern arms and ammunition. We will improve intelligence gathering and border patrols to choke Boko Haram’s financial and equipment channels. We will be tough on terrorism and tough on its root causes by initiating a comprehensive economic development and promoting infrastructural development…we will always act on time and not allow problems to irresponsibly fester. And I, Muhammadu Buhari, will always lead from the front.”

Kukah, however, noted that the reverse has been the case as the country has continued to wallow in insensitivity and despotism and the President has brought nepotism and clannishness into the military and the ancillary security agencies.

In Bishop Kukah's words, “No one in that hall or anywhere in Nigeria doubted the President who ran his campaign on a tank supposedly full of the fuel of integrity and moral probity. No one could have imagined that in winning the Presidency, General Buhari would bring nepotism and clannishness into the military and the ancillary security agencies, that his government would be marked by supremacist and divisive policies that would push our country to the brink.

“This President has displayed the greatest degree of insensitivity in managing our country’s rich diversity. He has subordinated the larger interests of the country to the hegemonic interests of his co-religionists and clansmen and women. The impression created now is that to hold a key and strategic position in Nigeria today, it is more important to be a northern Muslim than a Nigerian.”

Kukah stated, “Our nation is like a ship stranded on the high seas, rudderless and with broken navigational aids. Today, our years of hypocrisy, duplicity, fabricated integrity, false piety, empty morality, fraud and Pharisaism have caught up with us. Nigeria is at a crossroads and its future hangs precariously in the balance. This is a wake up call for us.”

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The cleric said with the current situation, Nigeria was not worth dying for. He stated, “Nigeria is at a point where we must call for a verdict. There must be something that a man, nay, a nation should be ready to die for.

“Sadly, or even tragically, today, Nigeria, does not possess that set of goals or values for which any sane citizen is prepared to die for her. Perhaps, I should correct myself and say that the average office holder is ready to die to protect his office but not for the nation that has given him or her that office.

He added that Buhari remained the only President in the history of the country that had run the “most nepotistic and narcissistic government in known history.''

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The Bishop said, “Today, in Nigeria, the noble religion of Islam has convulsed. It has become associated with some of the worst fears among our people. Muslim scholars, traditional rulers and intellectuals have continued to cry out helplessly, asking for their religion and region to be freed from this chokehold. This is because, in all of this, neither Islam nor the North can identify any real benefits from these years that have been consumed by the locusts that this government has unleashed on our country. The Fulani, his innocent kinsmen, have become the subject of opprobrium, ridicule, defamation, calumny and obloquy. His North has become one large graveyard, a valley of dry bones, the nastiest and the most brutish part of our dear country.

“Despite running the most nepotistic and narcissistic government in known history, there are no answers to the millions of young children on the streets in northern Nigeria, the north still has the worst indices of poverty, insecurity, stunting, squalor and destitution.”

The Presidency has not reacted to the Bishop's criticisms.