The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Rev. Father Mathew Kukah, says what former President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministers were saying about him and his government is shocking.
Kukah stated this in an interview on Television on Wednesday.
He said he has no personal grudge against the former president.
“There was nothing I said about President Buhari that was personal, that was disrespectful, I just felt he was doing things, that is, especially in the area of managing our diversity and look;
“I’m talking to ministers now who served in that government; I cannot call names. I am shocked to hear the kind of things people are saying about those who served in that government; that is for another day,” he said.
According to him, the only problem he had with Buhari was his inability to manage the country’s diversity.
Kukah was one of the fiercest critics of former President Buhari and his administration.
The bishop claimed that the former president had made Nigeria more vulnerable and succeeded in splitting the country.
He said, “Buhari has served his term. He also knew, and I respect him for that, that there was nothing I was saying that was personal. I imagined poor Adesina (Femi) and his team had a job to do and they needed to do that job even though there was nothing to say.
“I will respect and I hope that Pastor Adesina knows that there is a Foursquare Gospel Church in Daura, I believe that the President of Foursquare Gospel Church should send him there as a Pastor so that he is quite close to his Godfather.
“But having said that, I mean President Buhari had finished his term and he is gone and there is very little else to be said for and against. But everybody knew we had a job to do.”
