SAN FRANCISCO, December 14, (THEWILL) – The Catholic Archbishop of Sokoto, Most Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, has stated that no politician in the country could, without financial inducement, mobilise huge number of supporters like the detained Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.
He therefore reasoned that government need not hound such crowd-puller; instead it should seek to partner with such kind of popular figure because of their charisma.
Kukah, who said this on Friday night at the convocation lecture of the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU Ile-Ife, maintained that there was nothing with the ongoing agitation for Biafra by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
While asserting that the pro-Biafra agitators were merely exercising the freedom of expression, he said: “This country cannot continue this way. MASSOB has right to demand Biafra since we have freedom of expression. The problem of Nigeria should not be with Kanu but should be with who let the door open.
“The President of Nigeria or any governor, unless he pays, cannot bring the number of people that Kanu brought out. The anxiety of Nigeria should be that a young man who can bring out such great number of people is worth doing business with.”
The clergyman, while bemoaning the state of Nigerian universities, stressed that the management as well as lecturers should be blamed if some students failed to graduate.
“Elsewhere, students have a say in the promotion of their teachers but here in Nigeria, too many evils are being committed. We need a generation of lawyers and judges who can bend the arc of justice in favour of the poor,” Kukah stated.
While delivering his opening remarks, the Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Bamitale Omole claimed that OAU remained the best in the country, stressing that many feats had been recorded in the institution since he assumed office.
