• APC has no track record, says Catholic bishop
The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese , Mattew Hassan kukah, has said that Nigerians should not expect Buhari’s government to perform ‘wonders’ as widely expected, stating that the huge expectations of the people on the newly elected president to transform the country overnight would lead to condemnation of his government as the previous administrations.
Kukah who stated this at the weekened, while delivering a convocation lecture at the Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, insisted that Nigerians were eagerly looking for a transformer which may not come in the mode of the Buhari’s government, adding that Nigerians have a unique way of despising any government in power.
“The same Nigerians yearning for change in government which they now have would certainly change their tune like when Jonathan was the President. “Right from military to civilian regimes, Nigerians have been known for despising any President in power, but same Nigerians turned around to like the person when he leaves office.” “They did it to Obasanjo, they have done it to Jonathan. So, Buhari would not be an exception.
‘’ Now, hopes and expectations are very high on Buhari and he has said after his declaration as winner of the polls that he is not a magician and I think that is a warning’’, Kukah stated. He stressed that the All Progressives Congress, APC, which produced Gen. Buhari, does not have a track record.
‘’The APC does not have a track record. It is a gathering of takers and there is no reason why it could not end up like the PDP from where it has drawn most of its leaders today’’, the Bishop said. He urged the President-elect to move away from the stronghold of all religions so as to free both religion and the state to fulfill their role in the attainment of social welfare and justice and wondered why the federal, state and local governments continue to spend money on pilgrimages, the building of places of worship and so on.
Source: New Telegraph
