President Muhammadu Buhari
A fiery and outspoken Catholic Bishop has warned President Muhammadu Buhari that Nigerians are tired of hearing him blame the immediate past government instead of focusing on rebuilding the nation. Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah has told President Muhammadu Buhari to stop blaming the immediate past administration of Dr Goodluck Jonathan and concentrate on rebuilding the nation’s economy.
Speaking in Akure, the Ondo State capital on Tuesday for the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigerian (CBCN), Kukah asked Buhari not to focus only on the fight against corruption implement policies that would check corrupt practices and improve the standard of living of average Nigerian.
“We didn’t vote a government to complain about yesterday, if we wanted yesterday the new government would not be there. It is really about taking responsibility. No matter how much you praise or abuse Jonathan, he is not the President of Nigeria.
“I think that people must understand, you take power to solve problems not to agonize. As the head of a family, no matter how bad things are: no food in the house; you as a father can’t enter the house crying. It is the question of developing the mechanism: you can’t solve the problem.
“Even my best friends in APC now realise that nobody can sing the song about Jonathan being responsible for the problems we are in. We are not asking you to change the whole world, but Jonathan created problems: we are now riding a train between Abuja and Kaduna now; the train wasn’t there before. Things that Jonathan did that can help Nigeria, let’s continue with them.
"The bad things that Jonathan did and those who deserve to go to prison should go to prison. But sending people to prison will only be useful if it puts bread on the table of people.” he said.
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