The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has sent a strong message to President-elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as Nigerians join the global Christian community to mark the 2023 Easter celebration.
Bishop Kukah advised Tinubu that the most urgent task facing Nigeria is not infrastructure or the usual cheap talk about the dividends of Democracy.
“These are important but first, keep us alive because only the living can enjoy infrastructure.
“For now, the most urgent mission is to start a psychological journey of making Nigerians feel whole again, of creating a large tent of opportunity and hope for us all, of expanding the frontiers of our collective freedom, of cutting off the chains of ethnicity and religious bigotry, of helping us recover from the feeling of collective rape by those who imported the men of darkness that destroyed our country, of recovering our country and placing us on the path to our greatness, of exorcising the ghost of nepotism and religious bigotry,” Kukah said.
In the Easter message, the Sokoto Catholic Bishop also sent a strong message to outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari and supporters of Mr. Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the just concluded 2023 elections known as Obidients.
Kukah’s 2023 Easter message was also passed to Nigerian youths and the Supreme Court of Nigeria, which Nigerians and indeed the world is watching with keen interest to decide issues arising from the 2023 general election.