{"id":11488,"date":"2016-09-14T22:27:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T22:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=11488"},"modified":"2016-09-14T22:29:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T22:29:45","slug":"we-did-not-vote-buhari-into-office-to-complain-about-yesterday-he-must-take-responsibility-kukah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=11488","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We did not vote Buhari into office to complain about yesterday, he must take responsibility&#8221; &#8211; Kukah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=10539&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah has told President Muhammadu Buhari to stop blaming the immediate past administration of Dr Goodluck Jonathan and rebuild the nation\u2019s economy, which he said is <span id=\"IL_AD3\" class=\"IL_AD\">comatose<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div>Also, Kukah, who was in Akure, the Ondo State capital for the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigerian (CBCN), told the <span id=\"IL_AD4\" class=\"IL_AD\">Federal Government<\/span> not to focus only on the fight against corruption but should put in place policies that would check corrupt practices and improve the standard of living of average Nigerian.<br \/>\nSpeaking aside the ongoing conference on Tuesday night, the <span id=\"IL_AD5\" class=\"IL_AD\">fiery<\/span> Catholic Bishop regretted the blame game over the state of the economy and the dwindling living standard of average Nigerian since President Buhari came into office.<br \/>\nAccording to him, the government should continue with the good things done by the administration of Jonathan while the bad polices of the administration should be jettisoned. He said those who committed crime against Nigeria\u2019s state should be made to face the wrath of the law.<br \/>\nHis words: <b>\u201cWe didn\u2019t vote a government to complain about yesterday, if we wanted yesterday the new government would not be there.<\/b> It is really about taking responsibility. No matter how much you praise or abuse Jonathan, he is not the President of Nigeria.<br \/>\n\u201cI think that people must understand, you take power to solve problems not to agonize. <b>As the head of a family, no matter how bad things are: no <span id=\"IL_AD6\" class=\"IL_AD\">food<\/span> in the house; you as a father can\u2019t enter the house crying. It is the question of developing the mechanism: you can\u2019t solve the problem.<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Kukah.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6464\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Kukah-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Kukah\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Kukah-300x196.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Kukah.jpg 412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u201cEven my best friends in APC now realise that nobody can sing the song about Jonathan being responsible for the problems we are in. <b>We are not asking you to change the whole world, but Jonathan created problems: we are now riding a train between Abuja and Kaduna now; the train wasn\u2019t there before. Things that Jonathan did that can help Nigeria, let\u2019s continue with them. The bad things that Jonathan did and those who deserve to go to prison should go to prison. But sending people to prison will only be useful if it puts <span id=\"IL_AD1\" class=\"IL_AD\">bread<\/span>on the table of people.\u201d<\/b><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=10539&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah has told President Muhammadu Buhari to stop blaming the immediate past administration of Dr Goodluck Jonathan and rebuild the nation\u2019s economy, which he said is comatose. Also, Kukah, who was in Akure, the Ondo State capital for the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigerian (CBCN), told the Federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[25,2962,2961,154],"class_list":["post-11488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-apc","tag-catholic-bishops-conference-of-nigerian","tag-matthew-hassan-kukah","tag-muhammadu-buhari"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Kukah.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-2Zi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11490,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11488\/revisions\/11490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}