By NewsBits
With the 2023 elections approaching, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah has said that there is nothing like the right candidate in an election. The bishop who spoke on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme on Wednesday, the bishop stated that what is called “right candidate” is based on one’s sentiment.
He said, “When it comes to choose, let us be modest in our political expectations because sometimes people say, ‘vote for the right candidate’, there is nothing like the right candidate in elections. The right candidate may be a projection of your emotions afterwards what are we faced with? If you leave in Sokoto in 2015 when Buhari was elected president, about 9 or 10 people killed themselves out of excitement.
“Somebody came from Lagos to Abuja in excitement. That young man came to my office to tell me that he was the trekker and said nobody has looked at (compensated) him. I said oga I no trek with you na, which one is my own. So, political outcomes even though you have the fairest and most credible elections, is always no correlation between that and performance,” he said.
