After damnatory 2022 Christmas message about the current administration, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah has led other priests to meet President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House in Abuja, on Wednesday.
The cleric had, in his 2022 Christmas message at the St. Mary Catholic Church, Sokoto, described Buhari as a failure.
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In the said message, Kukah accused Buhari’s government of perpetrating high level of nepotism, insecurity, corruption, discrimination, among other vices, since its inauguration in 2015.
In his response to the cleric, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said Kukah only saw things through the prism of a political priest, with propensity for the opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party.
Despite the cleric’s public opposition to the Buhari administration, the president described him as a vigorous fighter.
Kukah said the President was leaving office in good health while Nigerians were in pain as a result of his failed promises.
On Kukah’s visit with the Catholic bishops to the State House, Adesina, in a post on his Facebook page, said Buhari displayed no form of malice to the cleric.
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He said, “When the bishop came into the council chamber, the venue of the visit, he pulled me, and started laughing, asking whether we should be fighting or greeting each other. We laughed heartily.
“During group photographs, the President, never holding malice against anyone, shook hands with the bishop, describing him as ‘most vigorous fighter.’
“After it all, the bishop invited me for a personal picture with him.
“Bishop Kukah was cooking peace this time, and how refreshing it was.”