“Buhari Runs The Most Nepotistic, Narcissistic Government In Nigeria’s History” – Bishop Kukah Says During Burial Of Seminarian Killed By Kidnappers.
The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto archdiocese, Mathew Kukah, has described the government of President Muhammadu Buhari as the most nepotistic and narcissistic government in Nigeria’s history.
Mr Kukah made this remark in a speech delivered during the burial ceremony of a Catholic seminarian from the Sokoto diocese, Micheal Nnadi who was killed by kidnappers.
It would be recalled that an 18-year-old seminarian, Michael Nnadi and three other seminarians were abducted by kidnappers during an attack at the Good Shepherd Seminary in Kakau, Kaduna state on January 10, 2020.
Sadly, on February 2nd, Nnadi was killed and his corpse found along the Kaduna- Abuja highway, while the three other seminarians — Pius Kanwai, Peter Umenukor and Stephen Amos — were released from captivity in late January.
Kukah lamented that while citizens of some countries are willing to lay their lives for their nations, Nigeria leaves you with no choice but to turn your back on your nation.
Nigeria is at a point where we must call for a verdict. There must be something that a man, nay, a nation should be ready to die for. Sadly, or even tragically, today, Nigeria, does not possess that set of goals or values for which any sane citizen is prepared to die for her.
While calling our President Muhammadu Buhari, Kukah also said political officeholders would rather die to preserve their privileged positions than sacrifice themselves for the good of the nation.
Kukah expressed that;
Perhaps, I should correct myself and say that the average officeholder is ready to die to protect his office but not for the nation that has given him or her that office.
Kukah while addressing President Muhammadu Buhari said the president successfully runs;
The most nepotistic and narcissistic government in known history. The Yorubas say that if it takes you 25 years to practice madness, how much time would you have to put it into real life? We have practiced madness for too long. Our attempt to build a nation has become like the agony of Sisyphus who angered the gods and had to endure the frustration of rolling a stone up the mountain. Each time he got near the top, the gods would tip the stone back and he would go back to start all over again. What has befallen our nation?
According to Mr Kukah, Mr Buhari, whom the cleric repeatedly described as a military leader, had promised to revamp the military and address the root causes of terrorism with proactive steps that will prevent the escalation of security threats across the country.
Kukah emphasized that;
No one could have imagined that in winning the Presidency, General Buhari would bring nepotism and clannishness into the military and the ancillary Security Agencies, that his government would be marked by supremacist and divisive policies that would push our country to the brink.
Despite running the most nepotistic and narcissistic government in known history, there are no answers to the millions of young children on the streets in northern Nigeria, the north still has the worst indices of poverty, insecurity, stunting, squalor and destitution.
The Bishop accused Mr Buhari of “displaying the greatest degree of insensitivity in managing our country’s rich diversity and has subordinated the larger interests of the country to the hegemonic interests of his co-religionists and clansmen and women.”
The Bishop, who heads the Catholic community in Sokoto State, said the “nepotistic conducts” of President Buhari has resulted in a “convulsion of the noble religion of Islam.”
According to the Bishop, the sad events across the country are the results of Nigeria’s years of “hypocrisy, duplicity, fabricated integrity, false piety, empty morality, fraud and Pharisaism.”
Mr Kukah also disagreed with the arguments that the Boko Haram’s central objective had no religious inclination saying;
We are being told that this situation has nothing to do with Religion. Really? It is what happens when politicians use religion to extend the frontiers of their ambition and power. Are we to believe that simply because Boko Haram kills Muslims too, they wear no religious garb?
Are we to deny the evidence before us, of kidnappers separating Muslims from infidels or compelling Christians to convert or die? If your son steals from me, do you solve the problem by saying he also steals from you? Again, the Sultan got it right: let the northern political elite who have surrendered the space claim it back immediately.”
Mr Kukah however called on Nigerian Christians to return the hatred of the terrorist with love by praying for their conversion, as Jesus Christ instructed.
