{"id":297782,"date":"2020-12-29T08:48:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T07:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=297782"},"modified":"2020-12-29T08:49:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T07:49:08","slug":"kukah-spoke-bitter-truth-fani-kayode-reacts-to-catholic-bishops-comment-on-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=297782","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Kukah spoke bitter truth&#8217; &#8211; Fani-Kayode reacts to Catholic Bishop&#8217;s comment on Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Femi Fani-Kayode, a former aviation minister, has backed Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Most Rev. Mathew Hassan Kukah over his Christmas day message.<\/p>\n<p>Fani-Kayode said Bishop Kukah\u2019s remark was the \u201cbitter truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Kukah, in his Christmas Day message had accused President Muhammadu Buhari-led government of nepotism.<\/p>\n<p>The clergyman said there would have been a coup if a non-Northern Muslim had become president and did some of the things Buhari was doing.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Kukah\u2019s message had stirred up mixed reactions from from Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>However, the former minister, in a tweet wrote: \u201cBishop Kukah has courageously spoken the bitter truth and called a spade a spade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose that are not comfortable with his words and are not ready to accept that truth should go and jump in the lagoon or hug a transformer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKukah has said what I have been saying for the last 5 years!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(DailyPost)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Femi Fani-Kayode, a former aviation minister, has backed Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Most Rev. Mathew Hassan Kukah over his Christmas day message. Fani-Kayode said Bishop Kukah\u2019s remark was the \u201cbitter truth.\u201d Bishop Kukah, in his Christmas Day message had accused President Muhammadu Buhari-led government of nepotism. The clergyman said there would have been a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,2677],"tags":[10134,13734],"class_list":["post-297782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-religious","tag-ffk","tag-kukah"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/297783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}