Insecurity: My speech was not a direct attack at anybody - Bishop Kukah
- Bishop Matthew Kukah is not taking back any of his stinging criticisms of the President Buhari administration
- The Catholic priest recently noted that there was nothing wrong in his statement that he made back in February
- Kukah insisted that he did not attack anyone directly in his speech following the nation's insecurity challenges
The Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Mathew Kukah, has insisted he did not speak vaguely when he recently came down hard on President Muhammadu Buhari over his inability to ensure peaceful co-existence as insecurity mounts in the nation.
Kukah in an interview with The Sun, in Abuja, explained that no matter what anyone felt about his words on Tuesday, February 11, in Kaduna he only spoke the truth and thanked God and the holy spirit for using him to speak.
The Catholic priest went on to note that the words he spoke which must have struck a chord was done by the help God and the holy spirit. And if for anything else, if it managed to wake Nigerians up, I think so be it.
I do not think that there are many Nigerians, including even those in government that would have offered a superior argument to cancel out some of the things that I raised.
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He said: "I don’t think I take anything back. But as I said, if I love this country less, I will not be saying the kind of things that I am saying and I think that circumstances and events in the last few weeks have suggested very, very clearly that people would have said what I said differently.
I do not see anything in the speech that is a direct attack at anybody that is not empirical evidence. So, you may be unhappy that I said it, but what I always say to my critics is that it is better to provide a superior argument than about emotions.
It is not about APC, it is not about Buhari as a person, but it is also an attempt that juxtaposes the promises that this government made with the realities that we now found ourselves in."
Legit.ng previously reported that Kukah berated President Muhammadu Buhari over the security situation in the country.
The priest who is a fierce critic of Buhari's administration accused the president of bringing nepotism and clannishness into the military and the country's security agencies. He made the comment at the funeral of a seminarian Michael Nnadi, at the Good Shepherd Catholic Major Seminary.
In a related development, Peter Obi, the vice-presidential aspirant of the People Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general elections said the current security situation in Nigeria is the worst the country has ever experienced.
Obi, who is also a former governor of Anambra state, told Channels TV on Sunday, February 2, that the prevailing insecurity in the country is worse than it was before 2015. The politician said the insecurity in the country had worsened to the point that churches have now started protesting.
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