Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Dioceses, Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah, has disclosed that most elderly Northerners are angry over the assassinations of Sardauna of Sokoto, Ahmadu Bello and Nigerian Prime Minister, Tafawa Balewa.
The fiery clerid disclosed this during an interview on Arise Television's programme, Prime Time on Thursday evening.
According to Kukah, most Northerners in their 70s and 80s are yet to forgive the assassinations of these two Nigerian founding fathers.
He said: "And I can tell you, most Northerners who are in their 70s and 80s still cannot come to terms with the brutal killing of the Sardauna and Tafawa Balewa.
"Unfortunately, we have a country that doesn't like to confront the truth. We often say as Africans, forgive and forget. And we bury the hatchet, but the handle is outside.
"So in my view, up till today, we have not been able to have the time, the honesty, the sincerity to come to the table to say what went wrong.
"This is why the dreams of our fathers, our founding fathers, have now become nightmares for us.
"And we now ended up with a situation in which the recruitment process, whether it's for public life or the bureaucracy, all of those things came crashing. So I think we can see why we are where we are today."
