The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rallied support behind Bishop Matthew Kukah over his call out on the President, Muhammadu Buhari for his failure to deliver on his 2015 promises.
Information Nigeria reported earlier that Kukah, the Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, addressed the President on Sunday, in a Christmas message at St. Mary Catholic Church, Sokoto.
Commenting on Kukah’s message, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, said, “What Bishop Kukah said is what our spiritual leaders should be doing. What the man of God said is not different from what we have been saying in the past seven and a half years.
“Nigerians are in sorrow because the government they elected twice has failed. The government of the day has no clue on how to tackle governance challenges. As a result, there is hunger, frustration and lack in the land.
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“In 2015, a bag of rice was N7,000. Today, it is about N50,000. That staple food affordable to every Nigerian is no longer on their table even at Christmas. Security has collapsed, contrary to the promise by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari that he would lead from the front.
“We agree with the revered Bishop that Nigerians should pause and reflect as they head to the polling units to cast their votes. The pains APC brought to bear on our people must be addressed by a leader who has seen it all. This is our message to Nigerians,” he added.
However, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday night describing the message as an ‘ungodly’ criticism of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).
Reacting to APC’s description of Kukah’s sermon as ungodly, Ologunagba stated, “if punishing Nigerians is godly, then the sermon is ungodly. If pushing Nigerians into poverty with growing unemployment statistics is godly, then the sermon is godly. If bad is godly, then the sermon is ungodly.”
Meanwhile, Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Ibrahim Abdullahi, speaking with The Punch, asked, “was there anything this government got right? There is unison in the fact that everything Buhari did was wrong. After eight years, what we have is an uncommon hardship that Nigerians have been visited with in the past seven and a half years. It is now a state policy because no one is frightened again to hear that a whole village is ransacked by bandits, maybe because these people are from his ethnic group.”
