In which he denigrated Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah over recent views allegedly expressed by the cleric regarding acquisition of private jets/aircrafts by some Nigerian Christians leaders which according to reports, our respected clergy described as an embarrassment to Christianity considering the perilous times we are in.
For the avoidance of doubt, Sunday Oibe or whatever he is or claims to represent, acted wrongly and grossly confirms our fears as to the relegation of our honest, unifying and most coveted association (CAN) and her true ideals as carefully laid down by her founding fathers Ambassador Jolly Tanko Yusuf, Cardinal Ekandem and many others. Though built with integrity and an earnest quest for genuine freedom amongst Christians, it’s ridiculous how it is being turned into a mere child’s play and a medium for wild gains best known to the likes of Oibe and his pay masters and fellow merchants.
Mr. Sunday Oibe embarked on a voyage of cheap black mail that exposes his ignorance on the person of Bishop Kukah. Bishop Kukah never served in Obasanjo’s government but was only a member of an Adhoc Human Rights Investigation Panel, popularly known as Oputa Panel, akin to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, chaired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. That Tutu chaired South African Commission and has been friends of Mandela for decades; does that mean he served in ANC’s government of Mandela? Kukah had been friends with Obasanjo for years in his African Leadership Forum in the 1980s until Obasanjo’s imprisonment, and what is wrong if he served in the committee?
It was the same ignorance he exhibited all through his inconsequential outburst, and so called ‘Kukah’s condemnation’. There is nothing beneath the Nigerian government, previously and even in the present that has put Kukah’s integrity in doubt and questionable except for Oibe’s pay masters whose understanding of nation building, is opulence via a religious exploitation with Christianity as the epicentre and cover. Count Kukah and his likes out of that contraption, it has never been our focus and never will. If it has been his trademark, Kukah will not be where he is standing today.
It is the likes of Oibe and his master Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor that have a responsibility of exonerating themselves from the wrong side of Nigerian history in the hereafter, but for Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, it has been a life of service to God and Country and to God be the glory, it has been a life most worthy of emulation for all true lovers of God walking in integrity, conscience and saying the truth to power without any compromise.
Signed.
Yahuda Peter
20/11/2012
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