Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka on Saturday responded to reports that he “attacked” President Muhammadu Buhari.
According to PREMIUM TIMES, Mbaka, in a statement by his media aide, Maximus Ugwuoke,
said that he only stated the obvious, adding that the blame should go
to the “Jonathan PDP administration” for the level of poverty and hunger
bedevilling the country. He called on President Buhari to “abate the
long procrastination, bureaucracy and slow methods in tackling it”.
He also urged President Buhari to be
“careful about how he appoints people to prominent positions, so that no
region will appear marginalized- as happened in NNPC board”.
Recall that Mbaka, on Tuesday said that
President Buhari should sit up and address the hunger, poverty, and
economic challenges the country is facing or risk losing the 2019
election. Click here to read it.
His statement read in parts:
How can we be fighting somebody who
is fighting for us? Apart from this Buhari, how can somebody talk to
these political juggernauts and tell them to bring back what they have
stolen? It is only a Beniah personality like Buhari that can enter into
the cave and catch a lion and kill a lion in a snow season and come out.
The president needs support. He doesn’t know where to begin because
there are many holes dug for him by the past administration, and they
carried the sand away expecting him to cover the holes with what?
Fr. Mbaka merely reiterated the
obvious sufferings that Nigerian are facing (which even the president
himself had at points acknowledged and sued for patience and
perseverance) and advised the president on the ways to tackle it i.e. by
engaging economic gurus and listening to good advisers.
We wonder which portion of the
message could be viewed as “an attack” or” bombing” of Mr President as
twisted in the media. The acclaimed message of the cleric to Mr
President to us is rather a further demonstration the cleric’s love to
see that the president succeeds in his messianic rescue operation
mission in Nigeria and that is why it is devoid of hypocrisy.
It is obvious that those who are
arm-twisting the said message of the cleric to Mr President as an attack
on Mr President are those who want the president to fail or be
blindfolded so as to use the obvious hardship Nigerians are facing as a
weak point of his administration to ride onto power mindless of the fact
that Mr President has done so well in fighting corruption and
insurgency in the country, which are mega achievements that scores him
above average in just few months of his administration.
In the background of the message, Fr
Mbaka encouraged the gallant warrior, President Buhari, to continue his
battle against corruption and insurgency asserting that if not a man
like President Buhari, by now people may have stopped going to church
and mosques. Boko Haram might have wrecked this country. People might
have equally stopped going to schools, markets etc. Kudos to Buhari .Fr
Mbaka revealed that corruption, insurgency and poor governance by past
governments gave birth to three horrible children (1) Hunger (2) Anger
(3) Danger.
He asserted that Buhari is not the
cause of corruption and insurgency yet he is fighting them frontally and
enjoined the president to extend same to hunger even though he is not
the cause. He pleaded the President to begin a War against Hunger, as
many are dying hopelessly. He stressed that if the hunger, anger and
danger continue, Nigerians may not vote for him again, as they would
mistake him for the cause of these maladies while in fact he is a
solution.
Fr Mbaka equally advised the
President on being careful about how he appoints people to prominent
positions, so that no region will appear marginalized- as happened in
NNPC board and charged the President to make sure that those around him
are not misguiding him. He advised the President on human empowerment
and making sure that those who worked for him (Buhari) during the
election ought to be empowered –as one good turn deserves another.
For the purpose of clarity, granted that Fr
Mbaka stated the obvious, that there is hunger in the land, he never
attributed the cause of the hunger and economic hardship bedeviling the
nation to Buhari rather he attributed it to the offshoot of the actions
and inactions of the past administrations of this country.
We recall that earlier this year, Fr
Mbaka had during his New Year message predicted that hunger and
hardship will come upon he country this year and so we wonder why this
message should make a headline at this point of the year.
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