Peace Committee NOT Intervening for Jonathan – Bishop Kukah

The National Peace Committee headed by former Head of State, Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar (rtd), which met behind closed doors with President Muhammadu Buhari today at the presidential Villa, Abuja has denied intervening on behalf of former President Goodluck Jonathan.


Though It was rumored that Jonathan had sought the intervention of the committee to check the beaming of Buhari’s anti-corruption searchlight on activities of his administration.

But Speaking on behalf of the committee after the meeting,the Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Dr. Mathew Hassan Kukah, noted that Jonathan never sought for intervention of the committee.
Kukah said:

“We gave a bit of update about the relevance of the peace committee itself and how we can help to nurture what God has given to us.

“Anybody is free to come to our committee but President Jonathan never by telephone or another means talked to the committee. We went to see him, but that is after we had already seen members of the political party and members of the civil society.  We planned to see the speaker because we couldn’t see him yesterday.

“This is a much planned series of intervention essentially just to hear out everybody and I think the good news is that Nigerians are committed to a new nation. They are committed to ensuring that the gains and blessings God has given us come to fruition.”

 “This is not an intervention, it is not a hearing out process. When we had election it was like a wedding, now the reality of government is now the marriage and people need to be encouraged.
“We need to reaffirm that this is our country and the only thing we can collectively be opposed to is injustice, iniquity, corruption and in that regard we all had one single conversation.”
“It is not heating up the polity. In our conversation with President Jonathan and members of the parties, I don’t think any Nigerian will support corruption or is against the President’s commitment to ensuring that we turn a new leaf.
“I think what we are concerned about is process, it is no longer a military regime and under our existing laws everybody is innocent until proven guilty.
“Again our own commitment is not to intimidate or fight anybody, the former President’s commitment and what he did still remains spectacular and I think that  President Buhari himself appreciates that. So our effort really is to make sure that the right thing is done.”