Presidency has described as unfair the comment by the Catholic Bishop of Yola Diocese, Stephen Mamza describing President Muhammadu as “sleeping on duty as Commander-in-Chief.”
The presidency observed that it was unbecoming of a religious leader, like Mamza, to engage “in an action that broke the old tradition of staying above politics”.
“In an action that broke the old tradition of staying above politics, the Catholic Bishop of Yola Diocese, Rt. Rev. Fr. Stephen Mamza delivered a homily in which he spoke angrily against President Muhammadu Buhari, whom he described as ‘sleeping on duty as Commander-in-Chief.’
“This is not a fair comment.
“There is so much that has changed in the past three to four years in and around Yola, and the Catholic Church in particular that a true assessment would show that but for the Change Administration of President Buhari, things would have continued the way they were, or even get worse. These could not have happened if a Commander-in- Chief was asleep.”
The Presidency, however, noted that Mamza was part of the success story recorded by the Buhari administration in Northeast, especially in Adamawa.
“Bishop Mamza was, and is still a strong member of the Adamawa Peace Initiative (API), composed of religious and community leaders which did the lovely work housing and feeding 400,000 displaced people from Northern Adamawa and Borno States in 2015.”