Says his Easter message was unchristian-like
The Presidency, yesterday, took a swipe at the recent criticism of President Muhammadu Buharis administration by the Catholic Archbishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah, and quoting the Bible, asked the man of God to avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless,
The Presidency, which cited many bible verses to buttress a lot of its points, said Kukahs message on Easter Sunday was not to Christs death and rebirth so man might be saved, but to damn the government in the most un-Christian terms.
In a press release entitled: Kukahs Virus of Hate, signed by presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, the Presidency accused the cleric of using every opportunity to descend on the Buhari administration, saying he was rather busy playing politics with Nigerias future.
Asking the Catholic Bishop to drop his cassock and participate fully in partisan politics in order to turn things around as earlier espoused by him, the Presidency maintained that all his allegations of ethnic, regional divide were sheer innuendo without proof.
It further said, Easter should be a time for renewal and hope. For those in authority both temporal and spiritual to come together in word and deed, so those who look to them for example can be inspired by their grace.
This is not a time for religious leaders to play politics, or politicians to play religion. It is a time, as stated in Titus 3:9: to avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.
Yet Bishop Kukah used his sermon purposefully to make dissensions and quarrels about the law. His accusatory list against the government revealed only his hatred for them”.
Earlier, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, had flayed those attacking President Buhari, over the recent wave of unrest and violence across the country, saying their negative messages were dividing the country, a development they now blame the president for.
In a tweet on his verified Twitter handle, which did not mention any particular individual, Adesina, blamed those accusing the President of dividing the country as the same set of people, who used their messages in the past to divide the country.
Kukah, had in his Easter Sunday message, titled: To Mend a Broken Nation: The Easter Metaphor (on Nigeria), stated, amongst others, that, Our dear country, Nigeria, still totters and wobbles as we screech towards a dangerous and avoidable canyon of dry bones. Nonetheless, we still cling to hope”.
Also, a few days after the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) called on President Buhari to resign, citing reasons of mismanagement and others, Bishop Kuka, in his Easter Sunday message, accused the federal government of reducing Nigeria to a broken nation and Nigerians a broken people.
