Most Rev. Mattew Hassan Kukah, the vocal Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, on Friday contended that President Goodluck Jonathan lost the presidential election to the opposition All Progressives Congress because the ruling Peoples Democratic Party became the association of takers and buccaneers.
The clergyman noted that Jonathan and his PDP would have won the elections had they not succumbed to the hubris that became the hallmark of the PDP.
He stated this while delivering his convocation lecture of Ebonyi State University at the College of Agricultural Science campus of the institution in Abakaliki on Friday.
Kukah said PDP could not deal quickly with the issues of greed and arrogance of some of its men and women in power.
The Bishop also added that the party could not control the excesses of some of its ministers and henchmen/ women, as it simply saw itself as presiding over a distribution agency.According to him, many would argue that it became insensitive to the needs of its supporters and the party had no mechanism for internal cohesion and simply believed that it was the elephant that could never be slayed.
Though he noted that APC did not have a track record because it was a conglomerate of factions and fractions of disparate groups which were welded together by a common belief that things must change, the President- elect, Gen Muhammad Buhari should restore public confidence in government.
He advised, “The President has to move the state away from the stranglehold of all religions so as to free both religion and the state to fulfil their role in the attainment of social welfare and injustice”. (Thisday).