‘Your Best Has Shown Your Level Of Preparedness For Office’ – Kukah Fires Buhari

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, has berated President Muhammadu Buhari over his level of preparedness for office in the last seven and half years.

Kukah stated that even though President Buhari has done his best in addressing the various challenges facing the country, his best was not enough.

The fiery cleric asserted that the President’s best speaks to the quality and level of his preparedness, and his ability to assemble a cabinet when he assumed office in 2015.

Naija News reports that Kukah, who made the submission during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday night, described Buhari as a good man.

He also that the issues of nepotism and corruption in the public sector, saying that these vices would certainly compromise the integrity, competence, and capacity of any public official.

He said: “That’s why, if we don’t get to the heart of the consequences of nepotism – I’m not looking forward to a president of Nigeria who is a Christian or who is a Catholic, who will for example just turn a lot of these things upside down and begin to punish other people for the sins that they didn’t commit.

“I’m not hoping that a Christian or anybody will be president and say, ‘No, it’s now time for us to do what those who came before us did.’ When you raise these issues, these are the kinds of things you hear from people in government: ‘Jonathan did this, Jonathan did that.’

“The fact that we didn’t succeed suggests very clearly we didn’t prepare for this examination and the lesson we take aware is that – I believe Buhari is a good man. He’s done his best, but his best was not enough. His best speaks to the quality and level of his preparedness, and his ability to assemble a team.”

Kukah argued that the most qualified and competent individuals are not given the platform to hold office due to an alleged long-standing culture of nepotism.

He said: “Because of this criminality in governance, we now have a situation in which for you to come with a first class degree in Petroleum Engineering from Oxford, Harvard, Cambridge or anywhere and think that you can walk into the NNPC and get a job, the gateman will tell you, ‘You are crazy. That’s not how you get a job in Nigeria.’

“If you think that because you’ve worked very hard in the military, the police, and you think because you’re so good, you deserve a promotion, even the people running the system will tell you, ‘That’s not good enough’.”