The Ongoing critcism of Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah’s message on prevalent insecurity and other current ills reflects a deliberate effort to ignore the message and attack the messenger, Honourable Tajudeen Yusuf has said.
In his Christmas message on the state of the nation, the Bishop of the Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Hassan Kukah lamented the endless woes, which he said had befallen the country.
According to Hon Yusuf who represents Kabba-Bunu/Ijumu Federal Constituency of Kogi State in the House of Representatives, needless attacks from the Feďeral Government and its bands of sycophants from the North and other parts of the country reflects untold hypocrisy and double standards.
In a statement issued in Abuja, Honourable Yusuf noted that many of those attacking Bishop Kukah have extended family members who are facing the stark realities of current waves of insecurity, unemployment and poverty that is far much worse than what obtained six years ago.
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Yusuf said that Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah’s decision to speak truth to power was applauded during the Goodwick Jonathan era but is now being mischievously misinterpreted as a call for insurrection.
“It is even more interesting when the minister with the least level of credibility in the entire Federal Cabinet speaks against the expression of such truthful criticism about grave national issues at Christmas period.
According to Hon Teejay Yusuf, those who prefer fawning sycophants to the hard truths from Bishop Kukah are very poor students of history who are indirectly sabotaging President Buhari and Nigeria’s democracy.
According to the legislator, Kukah’s critics easily missed the point without realising that genuine lovers of truth and justice would rise to support Bishop Kukah against those making futile efforts to discredit his truthful message.
“Bishop Kukah spoke against current prevalent nepotism as well as the fearsome indicators of a failed state when he raised issues of ‘endless bloodletting, a collapsing economy, social anomie, domestic and community violence, kidnappings, armed robberies’” he stated.
(Editor: Nkoli Omhoudu)
