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Pro-Buhari group wants Kukah out of peace committee, says he can’t be trusted

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Leave the church out of your politics, pro-Buhari group tells Kukah

A pro President Muhammadu Buhari group, Buhari Media Organisation, BMO, has called for the exclusion of the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah from the General Abdulsalami Abubakar led National Peace Committee.

The group said he can that he can no longer be trusted.

BMO was reacting to Bishop Kukah’s presence at the reconciliation meeting between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his erstwhile deputy and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

A statement signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the group, Niyi Akinsiji and Cassidy Madueke in Abuja, insisted that Bishop Kukah has openly displayed support for Atiku Abubakar, despite his claims that it was not a political gathering he attended.

According to BMO, the Abdulsalam Abubakar-led committee is one that should be seen to be non-partisan because of the role it was meant to play in the run up to the 2015 election.

The group said: “We are surprised, like many Nigerians, to see Bishop Kukah in the company of the opposition candidate at a reconciliation meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo, and later on claiming to be the strategic mind behind the reconciliation which we believe was targeted towards bringing the two parties together to fight the President Buhari administration.”

“This is not expected of a clergyman who is seen in some quarters as the alternate head of the National Peace Committee.

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“He has shown his bias and as such cannot be trusted to be non-partisan.”

It also dismissed claims by Kukah that he was not aware of the political nature of the gathering, saying this is a tale no one will believe.

“The clergy man was the key figure behind the reconciliation and did this knowing that Atiku was a PDP Presidential aspirant.

‘And if it is true that Bishop Kukah is insisting that he was only exercising his right to free movement, we are also demanding that having shown his hand, he has no reason to sit on a panel that is meant to be non-partisan.”

The Buhari Media Organisation added that it fully supports President Muhammadu Buhari’s admonition that religious leaders abstain from partisan politics.

 

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