The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has urged
President Muhammadu Buhari to work on resolving Nigeria’s economic woes.
He also told Buhari to stop blaming the former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration for the current economy recession.
Kukah, spoke with reporters at the Catholic Bishops Conference Dinner
Night held at the International Event Centre, (DOME) in Akure, the Ondo
State.
The Bishop said, “the previous government did not only do bad things; he did a lot of good things.
“And 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.
“We did not vote a government to complain about yesterday. If we
wanted yesterday, the new government would not be there. It is really
about taking responsibility.
“No matter how much you praise or abuse Jonathan, he is not the
President of Nigeria. I think that people must understand that you take
power to solve problems not to agonize.
“As the head of a family, no matter how bad things are: no food in the house; you as a father cannot enter the house crying.
“It is the question of developing the mechanism, else you can’t solve the problem.
“Even my best friends in APC now realize 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, but Jonathan
created problems: we are now riding a train between Abuja and Kaduna
now; the train was not there before.
“Things that Jonathan did that can help Nigeria, let us continue with them.
“The bad things that Jonathan did and 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”.
Governor Olusegun Mimiko, who was at the event in his remarks
stressed on the need for the government and the people to diversify the
economy.
He, however, said that the only solution to the crisis rocking the country is restructuring.
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