The immediate past Secretary General of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF),  Anthony Sani, has picked holes in Bishop Matthew Kukah’s Christmas message.

The former ACF scribe claimed that the message was not backed up with facts, and,  therefore, was capable of inciting violence across the country.

According to him” There is no harm in criticism of government policies and programmes as they affect the public. This is because constructive criticisms put governments on their toes for improved performance. And for criticisms to make desired results come to pass,they must be based on facts and truths, and that is why I see the attacks of Bishop Kukah’s Christmas messages; instead of helping to make hope strategic for all Nigerians, the messages tended to promote cleavages of the nation along ethnic and religious lines that stoke violence and conflicts in the polity. More so that his allegations of nepotism against the regime were not supported by fact checks”.

In his interview with Sunday Sun, Sani said further ” There is no harm in speaking truth to power based on sciences and facts. All Bishop Kukah needed to do is to do his fact checks of distribution of appointments made by President Buhari by ethnicity, religion and by state, and make them public for realistic appreciation ,since he is saying the regime is nepotistic does not make it so.”

He added ” The bishop can, therefore, help Nigerians in no small measures in not only in the areas of appointments, but also in the list of distribution of projects and major contracts by ethnic groups, religious groups and by state. This is because projects and major contracts are also access to national resources. For example, it is not possible for many people of conscience to believe his insinuation that the current regime has a hand in the killings by Boko Haram. This is because most of the victims are Muslims.”