Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on Saturday, warned the Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Mathew Kukah, to stop stigmatising the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).

Mohammed, in a statement titled, ‘FG Urges Religious Leaders To Eschew Message of Disharmony’, also warned religious leaders in the country to “refrain from stoking the embers of hatred and disunity” which could “trigger unintended consequences”.

The PUNCH had earlier reported that Kukah in his 2020 Christmas message titled, ‘A nation in search of vindication’, on Friday, accused Buhari of nepotism.


The cleric had said, “Every honest Nigerian knows that there is no way any non-Northern Muslim President could have done a fraction of what President Buhari has done by his nepotism and gotten away with it.

“There would have been a military coup a long time ago or we would have been at war. The President may have concluded that Christians will do nothing and will live with these actions.

“He may be right and we Christians cannot feel sorry that we have no pool of violence to draw from or threaten our country. However, God does not sleep. We can see from the inexplicable dilemma of his North.”


Reacting on Saturday, the minister said Kukah and other religious leaders have a responsibility to speak truth to power but “such truth must not come wrapped in anger, hatred, disunity and religious disharmony”.

Mohammed said it was “graceless and impious for any religious leader to use the period of Christmas, which is a season of peace, to stoke the embers of hatred, sectarian strife and national disunity”.

‌Making an apparent reference to Kukah’s statement that there could have been a coup or war in the country should any other leader exhibit Buhari’s “nepotistic behaviour”, the minister warned, “Calling for a violent overthrow of a democratically-elected government, no matter how disguised such a call is, and casting a particular religion as violent is not what any religious leader should engage in, and certainly not in a season of peace.”

“While some religious leaders, being human, may not be able to disguise their national leadership preference, they should refrain from stigmatising the leader they have never supported anyway, using well-worn and disproved allegations of nepotism or whatever,” Mohammed further stated.


“Whatever challenges Nigeria may be going through at this moment can only be tackled when all leaders and indeed all Nigerians come together, not when some people arrogantly engage in name-calling and finger-pointing,” he added.

Source:
https://m.punchng.com/Featured/Nepotism-Stop-stigmatising-Buhari-Lai-Mohammed-cautions-Kukah

Is that so?

Genuine men of God ought to be one of the voices of the people.
It's important they say the truth to those in power, so that they do that which will benefit the citizens.
Cautioning a man of God from saying the truth doesn't seem right.

ok

If ur team had come together to work with the then GEJ govt we'd have it better today, instead u framed up all sort of lies and blackmails to get him off the office...

Wow wow wow Lai Mohammed is a confirmed complete nonce... In his severely warped mind, nobody should say ANY truth that can embarass the president even if thousands of people are dying while we're not a country at war. Kukah has been speaking for the ordinary man right from the days of Babangida at least, who the fúck is Buhari that people cannot tell him the truth that he's fúcking up big time and its costing precious lives, propping his religion and fulani cronies in all strategic positions while leaving a large chunk of the country as second class citizens. Lai Mohammed is mad officially

An important member of Buhari's gang has spoken.

Stúpid president
Foolish followers

So this lier Muhammed want Kukah to repaint the truth before saying it
Sick fellow

Watching in HD okwa 2021 we shall see...

To uncle Lai, everybody should be praising bubu no matter the pain they are passing through abi?

Ok, continue.

Thanks to Kuka the champ, who throw catastrophe nice below jabs to bubu.

It's not that Nigerians don't know that both bubu and his cohorts have failed woefully and even, northerners are just enduring the loud pains of insecurity and hunger bashing them daily like tons of tornadoes, but they just they suffering and smiling.

Kuka has spoken for all right and reasonable thinking Nigerians.

Keep up your lies uncle liar ok.