Deeper issues of June 12 still remain unresolved - Bishop Kukah declares
- Bishop Matthew Kukah has said that deeper issues about June 12, 1993 presidential election remain unresolved
- President Muhammadu Buhari recently the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993 election, 25 years after the conduct of poll
- Kukah said that corruption which has become real issue in Nigeria must be tackled by the federal government
Matthew Kukah, the Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, has insisted that issues of June 12, 1993 presidential election remain unresolved.
Vanguard reports that the Bishop also declared that “corruption has become so bad that it is in every area of our national life.”
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Legit.ng gathered that while speaking at the formal launch of New Narrative newspaper in Lagos, Kukah said: “Democracy is a free exchange of ideas and requires patience,” noting that the deeper issues of June 12 had remained unresolved.
He said the issues concern the content and structure of the system “we are running as a country. We are refusing to deal with the difficult questions of how countries are formed and developed.
“Contrary to what has become popular, diversity is an asset. But the critical question is how we manage it. We have become hosta-ges to our environment.
“We live in a very dysfunctional society, where we pretend that things are working.” ‘We are in a hurry’ Kukah noted that Nigerians were always in a hurry to achieve everything noting that “the challenge with us is that we have outsourced our responsibility.
“The tendency of outsourcing our responsibility to God or external agents makes it possible for us to think about contentedness.”
The Bishop called on journalists to follow the footsteps of Anthony Enahoro, Peter Enahoro, Samuel Ikoku, Nnamdi Azikiwe and Obafemi Awolowo, who had clear idea of the type of a society the country needed.
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng had previously reported that the family of the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993, presidential election in Nigeria, late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola, wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari thanking him for awarding Nigeria’s highest nation honour to their father. 600 346
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Source: Legit.ng
