Controversial cleric, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has said if President Muhammadu Buhari is not swift about finding solution to the current economic hardship in the country, Nigerians would reject him in 2019.
Mbaka had predicted the defeat of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and former president Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 general elections.
In
a message entitled “From Goodluck to Badluck”, the Mbaka had accused
Jonathan of bastardizing the economy over personal interests.
The
Catholic priest, who visited Buhari at the Presidential villa soon
after he became President, had recently alleged that some people were
blocking him from seeing the President, claiming he had a message to
deliver to him.
However, in Mbaka's latest message to his
congregation, he said Buhari's administration has brought unbearable
hardship on Nigerians.
Read his full message below:
“The
issue is that Mbaka is speaking as the Spirit leads him; there is
hunger everywhere; my job is to tell leaders the truth, the landlords
are crying, the tenants are lamenting, sellers are crying, buyers are
lamenting; there is hunger on the streets (onye obuna na ajazi eze)
people are talking harshly, there is a channel called Aljazera, (ndi an
aja-eze), many students are being rusticated out of school because they
cannot pay school fees; the fees are being hiked. Proprietors are
distressed, many companies are winding up; the economy is relaxed,
Nigeria is being attacked ferociously and you are the citizens as well
as the members of the church.
“So, when you are
being attacked, the church is being attacked, that’s why I can’t keep
quiet when things are going wrong. I am telling the President to look
around him and know those who are advising him rightly and those who are
telling him that there is no trouble; the President should know that
there is trouble; if things continue like this, in the next election,
nobody will vote for him.
“Whether they like it or
not, I am giving the raw truth; if the President should have somebody
like me and he cannot be talking with me, then there is a problem; there
is a problem somewhere; somebody who can advise you without asking for
anything and he is representing the poor masses in the country and he
won’t tell you lies; he will praise you when you are doing well and when
you are not doing well, he will look at you in the face and tell you.
“I
don’t need the President; I need God, I need the Holy Spirit, I need
Jesus; there is suffering everywhere, people are suffering. To feed is
now a problem, and a hungry man is an angry man. Hunger and anger will
lead to danger.
“So, let him know whether he can
do away with some advisers around him and bring in the people who are
experts in economic revamp; there are people who are experts in that;
let them begin to empower people, people are not empowered, they are
still walking around in vicious circles, planning and planning and
planning. Go to mortuaries, go to mortuaries, there are no spaces. I
repeat, myself went to Annunciation Hospital the other time to see my
brother, coming in, there was no space, the whole mortuary was filled up
and they told me it is the same thing in the Eastern Medical Centre and
that if I go to UNTH, there is no space, the death rate is high.
“People
are living in hope and in hope; the adorers are hoping that things will
be well; I’m calming the situation, when you tell somebody same thing
everyday, when will things be well, when the person is in the grave?
Hunger everywhere, many neighbours don’t eat again, many are being
attacked by hunger, hunger is becoming a normal thing and there are
people responsible for this; mortuary and ambulance business is now the
thriving it; many cannot afford drugs; they can’t pay and many are using
it to rob the poor by opening satanic centres to dupe the poor and they
will be giving people fake prophecies, many terrible things are
happening in these centres in the name of churches; these are robbers;
people will tell you lies to take money from you. These are robbers,
these are hooligans who are at work in today’s Nigeria, many are
becoming hawkers, who will buy from you, with what? Even those selling
palm oil are adulterating it, even rice, wahala, even tomatoes, because
of the price, people put preservatives and sell poison to people, I
don’t know whether some people now embalm tomatoes, what is happening?
Things are hard, even to change clothes, everyday more pipes are being
blown, the Avengers are at work and up till now, there is no solution.
You know when certain things begin to happen, you begin to ask some
questions, somebody like me will begin to ask – when will this end (nke a
kabu ututu), this is still good morning of it.
“If
it continues the next three months, there will be no money to pay
salaries; the vicious effect is disastrous and when salaries cannot be
paid, teachers will come home, students will stop going to school, there
will be more kidnapping, more hooliganism, more armed robbery, more
prostitution, immorality will be on the hike, so, the President should
sit up, there is a red light blinking on the country, the issue of
Saraki and Ekweremadu, nobody wants to listen to such stories any more,
whether Saraki is the President of the Senate or Ekweremadu is not this
or that, the countrymen are tired of such stories.
“We
need economic experts, gurus, sages that are sincere, who can come in
and think about our economic revamp and judicial reformation. How can a
case be in court for more than 10 years? Even if you prosecute all the
senators, the matter may linger till the next 20 years; so what purpose
have you achieved? All these noise, EFCC arrested this and that, after
one week, that one is over; people are dying of hunger; dollar is
growing everyday and Naira is falling; Euro is rising everyday and Naira
is collapsing everyday; pound is on the hike everyday, on a mega level
and Naira is dwindling on a higher level, before you know it, people
will begin to lose hope and it will affect their faith in God, because
they will begin to lose faith and ask God where are you? That is where
it affects me because it affects the faith of the people. The Bible says
if the foundation is destroyed, what can the just do? The Bible says
the just man shall live by faith, that is my simple logic, when shall
this end?
“These Avengers phenomenon, I did
something that if the leaders of today are wise, the problem could have
been averted. By the gift of the Holy Spirit, His sagacity, I was
proactive; that time they have not started bombing; I made a lot of
effort; I won’t tell you what I spent so that the President will not
suffer what he is about to suffer. Like I told you, this is just the
good morning of it, very soon, people who are quiet will begin to talk,
when somebody like me will bring my cheque and all the money I have in
my account will finish in school fees, hospital bills, is it were well
with these people will they be coming to me. I am receiving the pain and
shock drastically.
“The quantum of charity we are
doing in the ministry is telling the level of poverty that is in the
atmosphere. To eat is now a problem, people no longer say give us these
days our daily bread but give us this day our daily bread, man must eat
to survive, people are not even talking about jobs any more, graduates
are everywhere, those who are making now are those who are selling
dollars.”
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