Bishop Kukah Helping Boko Haram Achieve Their Aim – Presidency Aide
The senior special assistant to the vice president on media and publicity, Laolu Akande, has berated Bishop Mathew Kukah of the Sokoto Catholic Diocese for allegedly helping Boko Haram insurgents achieve their aim of dividing Nigerians along religious line.
Kukah had in a homily he delivered during the burial of Michael Nnadi – a seminarian recently killed by kidnappers – accused President Muhammadu Buhari of bringing “nepotism and clannishness” into Nigeria’s military and security agencies and promoting divisive policies in the country.
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A staunch supporter of President Buhari, Kayode Ogundamisi, had in response said in a tweet: “Boko Haram and those terrorists don’t even need to do much, they have elements like Mathew Kukah who are determined to help the terrorists into narrating their activities along religious and tribal lines.”
Laolu retweeted Ogundamisi’s tweet and accused Kukah of behaving exactly the way terrorists and bandits would want Nigerians to respond to their activities.
“You are correct my brother,” the presidential aide said, adding that “Why should we act exactly the way the terrorists intend? As a government the war against the terrorists is relentless and total. As a people, let us do the same: reject every divisive rhetoric & strategy. Nigeria will prevail and we will end this evil!”
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Meanwhile, in the homily, Kukah had accused President Buhari of “running the most nepotistic and narcissistic government in known history.”
He said, “This President has displayed the greatest degree of insensitivity in managing our country’s rich diversity. He has subordinated the larger interests of the country to the hegemonic interests of his co-religionists and clansmen and women. The impression created now is that, to hold a key and strategic position in Nigeria today, it is more important to be a northern Muslim than a Nigerian.”
