The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, says Nigeria has lost the moral right to fight the Boko-Haram ideology because of the leadership style of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Mr Kukah stated this on Monday night during the discussion of his new book, “Broken Truth” in Abuja.
The bishop faulted the lopsidedness of leadership recruitment under Mr Buhari’s watch as well as his support for the same faith presidential ticket of his party, APC, for the 2023 elections.
The APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, and his running, Kashim Shettima are Muslims.
Mr Kukah, like some others across the country, considered the Muslim-Muslim ticket insensitive. He said there are consequences for using religion to manipulate Nigerians to vote for the APC.
He said such inconsiderate decisions of the ruling party stem from Mr Buhari’s poor recruitment process and a confirmation of the suspicion by some Christians of an Islamisation agenda.
“If you look at history, there is a consequence for using religion to manipulate politics. We just need to look at Germany, the consequences are there to see in Hitler.
“The problem is that the Nigerian political elites lack the mental capacity to understand the consequences of the fire they are stoking because there is nothing to suggest the average person who is living in the north, who is Fulani, who is a Muslim, who is Hausa, can say that they are proud of the Nigerian political system, beyond a very tiny percentage.
“And I have said that Buhari’s recruitment process has the tendency to cause a threat because we have lost the moral right to quarrel with Boko Haram who say unless you accept our way, you will die.
“If you decide that you want to give privilege to a religion or an ethnic group, what will happen is that others automatically become outsiders ” Mr Kukah said.
