Apologize to Onaiyekan, Catholic bishops, Presidency’s not secret cult – Atiku tells Tinubu

African Democratic Congress, ADC, statesmanlike candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has declared that the Presidency is not a concealed cult wherever lone those approved tin speak.

Atiku noted that cipher needs the support of the Presidency to talk the information successful a antiauthoritarian setting.

In a connection by his spokesman, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku said the Presidency and President Bola Tinubu needs to urgently apologize to the Archbishop Emeritus of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja, John Onaiyekan and the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria.

Onaiyekan had led the Bishop league connected a sojourn to President Bola Tinubu astatine the Presidential Villa successful Abuja.

Speaking aft the visit, Onaiyekan disclosed that Tinubu disagreed with their appraisal of the system and information concerns raised by members.

Onaiyekan said Tinubu insisted that his medication was connected the close track.

Reacting to the development, Shaibu said: “The Presidency is not a concealed cult wherever lone approved voices are permitted to speak. In a law democracy, nary 1 needs the support of Aso Rock to archer the information astir the authorities of the nation.

“Perhaps the Presidency has go truthful accustomed to inviting ‘fake bishops’ that it present assumes each cleric tin beryllium recruited into governmental propaganda. But Catholic bishops are different. They are not governmental props, r...