The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Mathew Kukah said the refusal by fellow Catholics in Nigeria to actively participate in politics was responsible for the woes confronting the nation. He particularly lamented that the situation had led to the killings of Christians in the Northern part of the country.
Bishop Kukah stated this on Thursday while delivering a speech on “Family Value, Human Right and the Challenges of Modernization In Nigeria”, at the 38th Supreme Council Convention of the Order of the Knights of Saint Mulumba Nigeria. He described Catholics as natural community builders and urged them to vote out any bad government.
“The role of religion in restructuring is much and yet we have not tapped into it. Right from time, Catholic Church has always been helping the government to build and organize the society. The church has always offered direction for the society. If Catholics are in politics as Catholics and not using their ethnicity then they can have the Catholic vote."
“Catholic needs to head this country, even the Federal Government does not have the influence the Catholic has and that has not been put to use to change things in the country. The voting power the Catholics have in this country is enough to have the government listen to their complaints, but since we don’t use it, we continue to feel the pain of the thorns of the government policies,” he added.
