Kukah's message portrays Nigerians’ experiences — PDP campaign

Kola Ologbondiyan

THE Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign Organization has hailed the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Mathew Kukah, for always speaking truth to power, even at great personal risk.

Kola Ologbondiyan, the campaign's spokesperson, made the revelation while responding to the Bishop's Christmas Day message.

Ologbondiyan explained that Kukah's message was a verdict on the APC's woeful performance over the last close to eight years.

He said: "Tinubu and his allies want to make Buhari the fall guy of the tragic rule of the dysfunctional APC 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. 

"What remains is for us as a nation not to repeat the mistakes we made in 2015 and 2019 to vote in another APC regime. We insist that if in the unlikely event that Tinubu gets the opportunity, the current suffering of Nigerians will be child's play. 

"The last eight years has shown that the APC has nothing to offer Nigerians but misery, unrestrained corruption, nepotism, insecurity and shameless propaganda in an attempt to cover up. 

"If Tinubu had something to offer, he would have shared it with Buhari for him to succeed except if he is telling Nigerians that he deliberately set up Buhari, whom he literarily brought to power to fail, so that he would reference the failure to seek political power for himself. 

"Nigerians are well aware that life was better under the PDP. To rebuild our nation, we must return to the good old days by voting for the Atiku-Okowa ticket and restoring the PDP to power in 2023." We can't afford to bring in another person for testing purposes; you can't bring in a person and a party that we know can't get 10% of the vote in parliament; it would be a disaster." We cannot survive another four years under the APC because doing so will reinforce failure. Our nation deserves better, and the PDP is the party best prepared to take on this task."

Remember Kukah's In his Christmas message, Buhari stated that he would leave office in good health, but that Nigerians were suffering as a result of his failure to keep his promises to fix the country. Kukha, who had previously chastised Buhari for his policies and inability to combat corruption, cited nepotism as a major feature of his administration.