Bishop Mathew Kukah of the Sokoto diocese has urged the president and the ruling party, All Progressive Congress (APC) to seize the opportunity presented to them by Nigerians to turn around the corner.
Bishop Kukah in a chat with Naij.com’s Olajide Adelana concerning Christmas celebrations called on the APC and President Buhari to value how precious the prize they are holding is noting that there won’t be Muslims, Christians and any other form of human expressions in heaven where we are all going to be accountable to God.
“We have tremendous opportunities and the president and APC must realise that how precious the prize they are holding is. I think this is the best moment we have to turn around the corner. They also must realise that Nigerians have been in the rain for so long that is why they are so impatient. So, we need a clarity of vision but I think the greatest challenge Nigeria faces now is not necessarily in the area of infrastructure.
“I think infrastructure is all desirable and all that. But it is the reconstruction of the internal infrastructure of our souls. That is to develop a vision that will say: ‘this is our country, this what it is supposed to be but we must stand together and this why it is in the interest of everybody’.
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“As you know in the final day of judgement where Jesus said: ‘you will go to heaven because I was hungry and you gave me food to eat, I was thirsty you gave me water to drink’ not because I am Christian or Muslims. When we get to heaven all these bad news we are hearing about, there will be no Muslims in heaven, there will be no Catholics in heaven, and there will be no Anglicans in heaven.
“There will be no Catholics in heaven, and there will be no Anglicans in heaven” -Bishop Kukah
“These are categories of human expressions but heaven that is of God will be genderless with no affiliations. All that we will enjoy is that we will be in the presence of God. So, I can only hope and pray that those with the responsibility of governing in our country take the issues and the challenges sufficiently seriously,” he said.
Speaking on Christmas celebrations and the need for Christians to sign unto the ideals of Jesus Christ, Kukah denied insinuations that he accused northern elites of being the architect of Boko Haram.
Hear him: “Am sure you probably have been following the internet where I have been subjected to one kind of abuse or the other on the grounds that I raised an issue about my brothers who are Muslims in the north. People say that I said that the northern elites that brought Boko Haram and so on. I say no. One I didn’t say that, more importantly it is to say that look if we don’t create a society where everyone has a fair chance that they can get to the finishing post.
“If people feel encumbered on grounds of their physical disability or impairment. If people feel that the doors are not opening because of their religion, because of their tribe, because of their political choices and so on and so forth you are not going to have a country. So for me the real challenge that we face and as a Christian is to appreciate what we are celebrating mainly Jesus Christ the prince of peace and to sign unto the ideals that Jesus himself lived for.”
Meanwhile, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has said that Nigerian Armed Forces had within the deadline given by President Muhammadu Buhari, crushed the Boko Haram sect and significantly destroyed its enclaves on Nigerian territory.
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