he Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation has hailed the consistency of the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan Kukah, saying he is always telling truth to power at great personal risk.
Spokesperson for the campaign, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, said this while responding to the Bishop’s Christmas Day message, in a telephone interview with Vanguard, in Abuja, on Monday.
Ologbondiyan explained that while apologists of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, would want Nigerians to focus on outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari and overlook their complicity his administration’s monumental failures, Kukah’s message is a verdict on the woeful performance of the APC over the last close to eight years.
He said, “Tinubu and his allies want to make President Muhammadu Buhari the fall guy of the tragic rule of the dysfunctional All Progressives Congress regime, which has left Nigeria and Nigerians in the worst kind of misery ever experienced.
“The fact remains that the policies and programmes, which Buhari implemented, belong to the APC.
“Just like Tinubu is going about celebrating the work of his successors whom he helped to power, he cannot dissociate himself and the experimental contraption called the APC from Buhari’s actions.
“The fact that he and his party are ashamed to use whatever this regime claims to have achieved to campaign, is a testimony to the fact that they failed Nigerians in every material sense.
“Bishop Kukah’s message is a validation of what most right thinking Nigerians know for a fact that the APC has failed.