A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has replied an Islamic group, the Muslim Solidarity Forum (MSF), that Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, has nothing to apologise about and the warned that the Islamic group be mindful of their utterances.

Fani-Kayode in a tweet stated that “Bishop Hassan Kukah did not attack Islam & has nothing to apologise about. He has always sought for religious tolerance & peaceful co-existence between Christians & Muslims. Those that demand that he “must apologise” or “leave Sokoto” must mind their utterances and keep the peace.”

He added “If anyone can provide me with a video of Kukah calling for violence against Muslims or inciting people against Islam I will give him one million naira.”

Kukah, in his December 25 message, accused the President Muhammadu Buhari of nepotism and failure to protect Nigerians.

The cleric had said, “One Northern Imam after the other have posted videos of lamentation on the social media asking why, with all the cards of power in the hands of northern Muslims, everything is bursting in the seams. How come our region has become a cesspool of blood and death? Why did President Buhari hand over a majority of the plum jobs to Northern Muslims? Was it for efficacy and efficiency? What was the logic? President Buhari must pause and turn around because his policy of nepotism has been rejected by the gods.”

Reacting to the message, the acting Chairman of MSF, Prof Isa Maishanu, made it known in a statement that the Catholic Bishop ‘must either apologise or leave sokoto’ for alleged ‘incitement to a coup, persistent and deliberate stirring of communal conflict and slanderous targeting of the majority Muslim population of Nigeria along with their faith.’