Cardinal Onaiyekan: Catholic bishops not rented cheerleaders – Atiku slams Tinubu

African Democratic Congress, ADC, statesmanlike candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has condemned the Presidency’s onslaught connected the Catholic Church and Cardinal John Onaiyekan, describing it arsenic yet different objection of the President Bola Tinubu’s administration’s increasing intolerance of dissent and uncomfortable truths.

In a connection issued by his Senior Special Assistant connected Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku said it was some unfortunate and unsafe that, alternatively of reflecting connected the substance of the cleric’s message, the Presidency chose the acquainted way of intimidation, ridicule and governmental attacks.

The connection read, “The Catholic Church has, for generations, stood arsenic 1 of the motivation voices of our nation. Its bishops and priests person consistently spoken for the poor, the oppressed and the vulnerable, irrespective of who occupies Aso Rock. Their work is not to flatter those successful powerfulness but to talk information to power.

“The Catholic Bishops demonstrated uncommon courageousness by looking the President successful the look and telling him the bitter information astir the authorities of the nation. That is precisely what patriotic spiritual leaders are called to do, not to decorate powerfulness with pra...