The Nigerian presidency has lashed out at the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah, describing his Sunday’s criticism of the Muhammadu Buhari administration as ungodly.

Mr Kukah had in his Easter Message on Sunday hit at the Buhari-led federal government over the grave security situation in Nigeria.

Easter is the celebration of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, which is observed by Christian faithful across the globe.

But in a full-throated reaction, to the bishop’s comment, presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, said, “All citizens have their individual ideologies, even their own versions of truth.

“But if you profess to being a man of God, as Father Mathew Hassan Kukah does, ideology should not stand in the way of facts and fairness.

“Father Kukah has said some things that are inexplicable in his Easter message.

“But, in saying that the Boko Haram terrorism is worse than it was in 2015, he did not speak like a man of God. Kukah should go to Borno or Adamawa to ask the citizens there the difference between 2014 and 2021. Furthermore, the Hijab issue in Kwara State on which he dwelt is a state matter which the courts of the land have adjudicated. They are matters that have appeared in several states as far back as the Obasanjo administration. In all of that, when and where did the name of President Buhari feature?

“He is playing partisan politics by dragging the President into it.

“An administration that has created a whole Ministry, for the first time in the country’s history, appropriating enormous resources to it, to deal with issues of internally displaced persons cannot, in all rightfulness be accused of not caring for them.