Mathew Kukah, bishop of Sokoto diocese of the Catholic church, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of bringing back ethnicity which Nigerians felt they had overcome.

In a letter to the president, the cleric said Nigerians have never been so alienated from one another.

Kukah said during his campaign, Buhari promised to fight corruption and make the nation secure but he has fallen short of expectations.

He said Buhari needs to connect with Nigerians and fulfil his promises.

“You know sir, that you rode into town like a knight in shining armour, carrying the joys, pains, anxieties and fears of a people whose broken dreams had littered and turned the landscape into a kaleidoscopic scenery of desolation and despair,” he said.

“In your campaigns, you promised to restore a sense of national pride in us by slaying the dragon of corruption, banishing the retrogressive scourge of Boko Haram, bringing back our daughters from Chibok and making our country and citizens truly safe.

“We waited in hope right to the end of the first year, but somehow, amidst some hazy weather, all we heard was the sound of screeching tyres with the plane carrying our hopes seemingly unable to take off. It finally did but we had barely gained altitude when sickness struck and you spent the better part of a year seeking healing.

“The nation prayed for you and miraculously, you recovered. Evidently, you had been saved for a purpose. Our prayer is that this realisation will help you understand that you have a date with history and divine judgment. For now, before your eyes and in your hands, our country, our communities, our people are all in a state of stupor. We have never felt so alienated from one another. The bogeyman of religion, region and ethnicity, which we thought we had overcome by the sheer nature of your support base, has come back with a vengeance to haunt and threaten the very foundation of our existence.

“Mr President, you are too distant from your people. There is a sad feeling that you do not share in the pain and suffering of your people. You must very quickly find a way of connecting with your people before the devil takes over the space. For taking on this challenge and connecting with Nigerians.”

The bishop also asked politicians to desist from the practice of enriching themselves from the government’s purse.

“The average age of governors and legislators across the country is 50. These are the years of dreams, maturity, sacrifice, patriotism and self-giving,” he wrote.

“But, sadly, you do not seem ready to depart from the culture of cronyism, prebendalism and primitive accumulation. The result has been ruination and decay.

“I appeal to you to please abandon the spirit of selfish accumulation and embrace the principles of integrity and genuine service of our country. Do not let this country collapse in your hands. For accepting to make some sacrifice, respect and listen to our people.”

He appealed to Nigerians not to succumb to pressure and allow the rich or the political class divide them.

Kukah reminded them that God has plans for all of them.

“But you yourself, no matter how rich or poor, how educated or otherwise you are, have a duty to understand that God has plans for you and for every individual and you have a duty to both yourself and your neighbour,” he said.

“You have to defend your personal dignity and seek the enforcement of your rights to have property and to raise a family as opposed to waiting for the crumbs from our greedy leaders. “Defend your dignity as human beings and children of God. Do not allow the rich and powerful, who are rich because you are poor, to divide you.

“They have light and water in their high fenced houses, not because they are Muslims or Christians or that they are from this or that or the other tribe but simply because they are rich. You are poor, homeless, have no road, no water, and your children are sick and illiterate, not because you are Christian or Muslim or from this tribe or the other, but simply because you are poor.

“You and your children vote, but their children do not vote because they are abroad. Your children beg and die on the streets while their children are abroad, fraternising with those they call infidels. They give you a fake religion that enslaves you while they give their own children the religion of education that will liberate them and make them rule over you. Rise and defend your right to food and shelter because poverty is not a divine inheritance.”

https://www.thecable.ng/kukah-writes-buhari-we-thought-we-had-overcome-ethnicity-but-you-brought-it-back-with-vengeance/

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100% true,the truth is that buhari has dragged us backward. Some people don't even know how backward buhari has dragged us. Nothing is functioning in this country. You can't even point to any ministry and say they are functioning ,example is our ministry of agriculture that was doing wonderfuly well until Buhari came onboard...things must change.

only the useful idiots in Pac will disagree

they will soon flood this thread calling ipob. some of them will start abusing this bishop.



vile vagabonds.

Children of perdition, over to you.

kukah is wasting his time

The voices of the masses is the voice of God . This is the mind and act of majority of Nigerians presently.
It not too late for Buhari and APC sycophants to amend their ways .
Nigerians voted for them for a genuine reasons and they have the rights for better lives .

To be candid, Buhari is a failure!

The average age of governor cannot be 50

None in the SW is under 50

After this I wonder if anybody with functional brain in his skull will still want this plague to co continue, if such a person still exist, he or she should be sacrifice for the gods to help us cleans the land

Buhari is a nepotic terrorist president whose only achievement in office is to gallivant round the world and take pictures

usba:


Yet father kukah pretend not to see that, yesterday they brought religion into it and claim PMB thinks he is greater than God. It is sad clerics like kukah takes attention away from the people forment division and praising the deceitful ones bent on destroying the country. They shall fail and they shall never know peace as calamity after calamity shall befall them till they leave ordinary Nigerians to enjoy good governance.

What you are enjoying is the wanton killing going round the country... Continue

Buhari did not bring ethnicity, those who lose 2015 election brought it

adem30:
Buhari did not bring ethnicity, those who lose 2015 election brought it

Yet father kukah pretend not to see that, yesterday they brought religion into it and claim PMB thinks he is greater than God. It is sad clerics like kukah takes attention away from the people forment division and praising the deceitful ones bent on destroying the country. They shall fail and they shall never know peace as calamity after calamity shall befall them till they leave ordinary Nigerians to enjoy good governance.

Coming from an anti - Buhari Christian leader like Kukah, I am not surprised. The truth is, majority of Nigeria Christians hate Buhari with passion even before he trounced Jonathan , and so the next election is going to be a straight fight between Christians and Muslims, with the Muslims population in Nigeria,' there can only be one result.

Seriously I started to notice this ethnicity stuff again in 2016

The Bishop's points are valid.

adem30:
Buhari did not bring ethnicity, those who lose 2015 election brought it

Yes o

They were the ones that divided Nigeria into 5% and 97% at the beginning of this administration.

Oluwole revisionist like you.

They asked the president -why are some regions being underrepresented in your govt appointments and projects...

A sensible president would have said
" I don't believe that. Our national policy is getting the best hands wherever found.
I am sorry if some regions are underrepresented. It was not our deliberate intention. We will try and balance it however possible.

Instead, the president went into a tirade of 5% and 97% and some people are wondering why tribalism became unprecedented in this administration .

The infamous 97 versus 5% interview started this division. Sadly it came from the fellow who was supposed to unite the Nation after the gruelling victory!

Hmmm

That was the first thing he brought back.

Immediately after rigging the 2015 and won.

He made the 97% and 5% statement.

Since then he has been competing with himself in ethnic and religious bigotry.

THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN MUST SET FORTH AT DAWN

Bigotry is in Buhari, just like peak milk.

Buhari is actually an ethnic champion who decieved moderates like me inti believing he is a nationalist.

However the Enugu-onitsha express way is being built by his administration...so if he wins or lose 2019 election, its still a win for Igbos...so long as fulani heardsmen violence is only centered in the north

He can't read so all of you writing him letters are wasting your time.

Nigerians should take it as a patriotic duty to vote out this government in 2019

adem30:
Buhari did not bring ethnicity, those who lose 2015 election brought it

MAYBE THOSE THAT LOST ELECTIONS INTRODUCED SUCH PARALLELSM IN THE POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS TOO.

"poverty is not a divine inheritance.”

True words there
Something to chew on

Sirjamo:
Coming from an anti - Buhari Christian leader like Kukah, I am not surprised. The truth is, majority of Nigeria Christians hate Buhari with passion even before he trounced Jonathan , and so the next election is going to be a straight fight between Christians and Muslims, with the Muslims population in Nigeria,' there can only be one result.

This is one of the enemies of the people the bishop was referring to, don't listen to him. he is trying to protect his advantage.

NIGERIA needs SURGERY and ABORTION PILLS as well as POSTINOR...
....ask me why...

Buhari actually emboldened islamists to do as they like in Nigeria which further alienated millions of Christians. We made a very huge mistake in 2015 and I don’t know how Christians can remedy this. Things are very bad at the moment.

Sirjamo:
Coming from an anti - Buhari Christian leader like Kukah, I am not surprised. The truth is, majority of Nigeria Christians hate Buhari with passion even before he trounced Jonathan , and so the next election is going to be a straight fight between Christians and Muslims, with the Muslims population in Nigeria,' there can only be one result.

Exactly. Kukah is known for his rabid islamophobia.