President Muhammadu Buhari has taken the Bishop of the Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Bishop Mathew Hassan-Kukah to cleaners over his Christmas message where he said that the government is leaving Nigerians more vulnerable than they were in 2015, when they came into office.

However, reacting to Kukah’s statement, Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina in a statement said:

“Bishop Kukah’s claim is completely unsubstantiated and reflective of his hatred for the All Progressives Congress (APC).”

“Let’s look at the allegations. ‘You are leaving us far more vulnerable than when you came.’ How? In what way? Where was the Bishop in 2015, when the polity had been completely shot to ribbons, and you couldn’t exactly say this was where Nigeria stood?”

“Was there even a Nigeria, with insurgents running riot across the length and breadth of the country, bombing the land to kingdom come?”

“The Bishop forgets or is too filled with amnesia to remember. If Nigeria was vulnerable to death, destruction, and destabilization, it was the situation before Buhari came, more than now. To a great deal, he has stabilized the land, crushed vermin, and is cleaning the polity. The job is not fully done but is being done daily.”

“Bishop Kukah has been accused many times of being a political priest, with a propensity for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and great antipathy for the APC. That was possibly the prism through which he saw things, and, therefore, his erroneous conclusion of ‘more vulnerable.”

“Again, he alleged that corruption was not fought, and had become a leviathan. Yes, when corruption creeps under the robes and cassocks of even priests, they would never see it being fought.”