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Federal Government has hit back at the Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Hassan Kukah, warning him not to fuel disharmony in the country.
This is coming after the Bishop in a christmas message accused President Buhari of nepotism.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed who hit back in a statement issued in Lagos on Saturday by Special Assistant to the President on Media, Office of the Minister of Information and Culture, Mr. Segun Adeyemi, urged religious leaders in the country to refrain from stoking the embers of hatred and disunity, even as it warned that resorting to scorched-earth rhetoric at this time could trigger unintended consequences.
Bishop Kukah had said in his 2020 christmas message that there could have been a coup or war in the country if a Non-Northern Muslim becomes president and does some of the things Buhari has done.
Responding, the Minister said: “While religious leaders have a responsibility to speak truth to power, such truth must not come wrapped in anger, hatred, disunity and religious disharmony.”
Alhaji Mohammed said it is particularly 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.
”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,” Alhaji Mohammed said, adding that instigating regime change outside the ballot box is not only unconstitutional but also an open call to anarchy.
He said while some religious leaders, being human, may not be able to disguise their national leadership preference, they should refrain from stigmatizing the leader they have never supported anyway, using well-worn and disproved allegations of nepotism or whatever.
The Minister said 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.
The statement notes that by bringing “Christians” and “non-Northern Muslim” into his no-longer new issue of acclaimed nepotism that he and some other elites have been raising against the President is, however, unclear if Kukah meant nepotism to be that the now second-term governing Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been favouring Muslims of the North against Christians of North, South as well as against Muslims of the South.
The man of God has spoken the minds of the weak on the society.It is obvious thing is not going in the right way although Nigeria is not yet a fail state
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