Matthew Kukah Fires Back At The Presidency, See What He Said

Matthew Kukah, the Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Sokoto, has said that Aisha Buhari, the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, also disagrees with his policies.

iexclusivenews reports that Kukah made this known in an interview on Arise TV on Tuesday morning monitored by our correspondent.

While echoing his points, Bishop Kukah stated that he has no personal animus toward the president. But it is his policies with which Aisha also disagrees.

“All those who say I attacked the president, I have never attacked his person,” Kukah said. All I’ve mentioned is his inability to manage differences effectively and efficiently. I studied diversity in college and know what I’m talking about.

“Those who think these things are personal would see that I have never talked about his person or character; I believe he is a gentleman but as far as being the president is concerned, he has done a bad job, even his wife has also disagreed with his policies.

“So, those guys should not sit in their air-conditioned office drinking coffee and think everything is honky-donkey. Let them disagree with the text of my message.”

According to him, he has great respect for the president and his person who he considers a gentleman but when he accesses him as a president, he has failed woefully in the delivery of his job.

“Let me set the record right, I gave my sermon and the message to my church,” he added. The message’s bearers are principally aimed at the good people of the Sokoto dioceses.

“The president is aware that I hold him in high regard and that he is a gentleman, but he has done a terrible job as President of Nigeria.”

“There is nothing I am saying that is new, all the pastors who preached yesterday during the Easter service said the same thing. Tell me one thing about the message that I preached that you disagree with and let’s discuss.”

Kukah, who stated that he interacts directly with the president, stated that his criticism of the government is motivated by a desire to see the country improve.

He went on to say, “It’s something for a Muslim (Garba Shehu) to sit down and tell me what an Easter message should entail.”

“Buhari himself knows that there is nothing personal in what I say. One thing the president has said that humbled me is that he told me ‘Bishop Kukah, I know where you stand on any issue that has to do with Nigeria.’

“What connected me with Buhari and a lot of Muslims is not the catholic church, it is my public position on a lot of things. And I am not saying it so that you must agree with me. But Nigerians have been extraordinarily magnanimous because I have not had many people saying we disagree with you and I have not spoken because I know the issue. The primary beneficiary of what I say is me and I speak for myself. If you have any issues with me, let’s clarify the issue.”