Politics

Kukah Gives Reason He Won’t Contest Presidential Election

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5 months ago

November 24, 2023

The Bishop of the Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has rejected appeals urging him to run for the presidency, asserting that he believes he would not make a good president.

Speaking at the 8th House of Justice Summit in Kaduna State, he disclosed, “A lot of people have been saying to me in the last 30 years, ‘Come and contest elections. Come and contest the presidency of Nigeria.’ Oga, make I finish with parish work, first. Because if I were under that illusion — a lot of people have told me, ‘We will pay for you. You don’t have to pay because we believe you will make a good president.’ But I know that I will not make a good president because good presidents are not what you’re looking for,” Fahter Kukah said on why he won’t contest for president.

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Kukah emphasized that, in politics, Nigerians are not seeking “holy people” or “good men,” questioning, “Because what do you mean by good?”

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Expressing sorrow over the entanglement of the judiciary and Catholic priests in politics, he stated, “I am saddened by the fact that the judiciary has now found itself being sucked into politics.”

Besides extricating himself from contesting for the office of President, he said:

“I would have also been sad — and I’m also sad — to the extent that even us who are priests in the church, we are getting sucked into politics because you will never come out the same. You go to wrestle with a pig inside poto-poto (mud). You may defeat the pig, but you cannot go around showing yourself to see what you look like,” Kukah added.