Rotimi Amaechi, a former governor of Rivers State, says religious leaders have the right to criticise the government.
Speaking during an interview on Channels Television on Tuesday while reacting to recent criticism of President Bola Tinubu’s administration by Catholic bishops, Amaechi said religious leaders should openly criticise the government.
He said even though President Donald Trump came after Pope Leo XIV, who spoke against the war in Iran, the Catholics in America warned Trump not to do so.
“If they don’t, who else can? Didn’t he listen to the Pope? The Pope was against the war,” he said.
“The Catholics in America said, ‘You can’t say that of our Pope.’… All I know is that the population of the Catholics is about 35 million, and you just can’t insult all of us like that. You can’t.”
The former Rivers governor said that when the
