Wake Up & Fix Nigeria, Stop Complaining, Kukah Berates Buhari

“Jonathan created problems but we are now riding a train between Abuja and Kaduna; the train wasn’t there before”

Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah on Wednesday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to wake up and face the challenges of governance and stop agonizing over alleged misdeeds of past administrations.

He reminded the president that Nigerians “didn’t vote a government to complain about yesterday. If we wanted yesterday, the new government would not be there.”

Kukah gave the advice when he spoke with newsmen at a dinner organized by Ondo State Government after the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigerian, CBCN, in Akure, the Ondo State.

This comes at a time leaders of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP are intensifyingg their attacks on Buhari over his comments that he inherited nothing from PDP administrations of former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan.

On n the blame game of Buhari’s administration, the clergyman said: “The previous government didn’t only do bad things, it did a lot of good things.

“I think the business of government is not our business; our business is, if the previous government did bad, that is why we voted a new government. It is really about taking responsibility. No matter how much you praise or abuse Jonathan, he is not the President of Nigeria. I think people must understand, you take power to solve problems, not to agonize.

“As the head of a family, no matter how bad things are in the house, you, as a father, can’t enter the house crying. It is the question of developing the mechanism. Even my best friends in APC now realise that nobody can sing the song about Jonathan being responsible for the problems we are in.

“We are not asking you to change the whole world. Jonathan created problems but we are now riding a train between Abuja and Kaduna; the train wasn’t there before. Things that Jonathan did that can help Nigeria, let’s continue with them.

“On the bad things that Jonathan did, those who deserve to go to prison should go to prison, but sending people to prison will only be useful if it puts bread on the table of people.”