APC Running On Empty Tank Towards 2023 Election – Bishop Kukah

Bishop Matthew Kukah has doubled up on his assessment of the outgoing administration saying on Monday that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC is entering the 2023 General Election on an empty tank of promises.

Responding to criticisms by the APC over his Christmas homily in which he said that the Muhammadu Buhari government had left the country worse off, Kukah said that his assessment of the government flowed from the need for robust engagement with the political class. According to him the political culture of leaders being confronted with their promises should be promoted for the development of the country.

Kukah, the Catholic bishop of Sokoto Diocese who spoke on Arise News Television’s The Morning Show said:

“APC running on an empty tank as far as the election is concerned and almost everything I am saying is verifiable,” Bishop Kukah said.

“Raji Fashola delivered a lecture at our university, Veritas University and he said that when a team loses a match it would say we didn’t lose, we just ran out of time and I think that there is a feeling now that they have run out of time.

I walk across this country and people engage me and they are congratulating me and say ‘we thank you for speaking for us and I often say very frankly, please I am not speaking for you, I am speaking for Matthew Kukah. If what I say resonates with you, that’s fine.

“You can see that we don’t have a political culture and what we call political parties don’t really qualify to be called parties because in almost every election people are contesting on changing platforms. Look at all the candidates there is (virtually) nobody who has not moved in at least three or four different directions to the extent that political parties are just seen as mere vehicles for getting to a destination whatever that destination may be.

“I didn’t ask the APC to make the promises they made. I didn’t ask the APC president to make the promises he made on May 29. I didn’t ask him to make the promise that he is going to keep us safe. I didn’t ask them to make the promise that they were going to bring back our girls. I didn’t ask them to make the promise of giving us power and so on, so forth.

“What is missing in Nigerian politics, it is not that we are really governed by good men or bad women, it is that we lack the politics of engagement and engagement is about confronting leadership with the text of their own promise,” Bishop Kukah said following his assertion that the APC was running on an empty tank.

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