Catholic bishop of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan kukah has said that manipulation of politics with religion has its attendant consequences.
Kukah said this on Monday at a discussion of his new book, “Broken Truth” at Rovingheights Bookstore, Abuja.
He added that many Nigerian politicians, unfortunately, do not understand the consequences of such actions.
“If you look at history, there’s a consequence for using religion to manipulate politics. We just need to look at Germany, the consequences are there to see in Hitler,” he said.
“The problem is that the Nigerian political elites lack the mental capacity to understand the consequences of the fire they are stoking because there is nothing to suggest, the average person who is living in the north, who is Fulani, who is a Muslim, who is Hausa, can say that they are proud of the Nigerian political system, beyond a very tiny percentage.
“And I have said that Buhari’s recruitment process has the tendency to cause a threat because we have lost the moral right to quarrel with Boko Haram who say except you accept our way, you will die.
“If you decide that you want to give privilege to a religion or an ethnic group, what will happen is that others automatically become outsiders”, he added.
