Ex-Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has condemned the presidency’s criticism of the Catholic Church and John Cardinal Onaiyekan, describing it as an attack on one of Nigeria’s most respected moral institutions and a sign of the Tinubu administration’s growing intolerance of dissent.
Atiku also demanded an immediate and unreserved apology to the former Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, Cardinal Onaiyekan, and the Catholic faithful, insisting that the presidency’s response to the cleric’s comments was “arrogant, disrespectful and unbecoming of a democratic government.”
In a statement issued on Sunday by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, the former vice president accused the presidency of choosing political attacks over introspection following recent remarks by members of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria on the state of the nation.
According to Atiku, rather than addressing the concerns raised by the bishops, the presidency resorted to intimidation and attempts to discredit respected religious
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