Enugu State, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has warned President Muhammadu
Buhari that Nigerians will not vote for him in 2019 if he does not address
the high level of hunger and suffering in the country.
Mbaka has been one of Buhari’s most vocal supporters since he asked
Nigerians to reject the incumbent, Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples
Democratic Party during the 2015 presidential pol and predicted Buhari’s
victory.
But, in a surprising turn of events, Mbaka attacked Buhari in a recent
message, details of which were obtained by journalists on Tuesday night.
In the message, Mbaka noted that there was too much suffering in the
country, and faulted the President for not appointing the right people.
He also accused the President of listening to the wrong advice.
The message partly read, “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.
“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 speaking 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.”
Continuing, he said, “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 an 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.”
Mbaka said there were no spaces left in mortuaries across the country.
“Hunger is 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 thriving because many cannot
afford drugs.
“In today’s Nigeria, many are becoming hawkers, who will buy from you,
with what?
“Everyday, more pipelines 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?
“If it continues in 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 kidnappings, more hooliganism, more armed robbery, more
prostitution, immorality will be on the increase.”
He urged Buhari to sit up and stop going after the leadership of the Senate.
Mbaka equally bemoaned the continuous depreciation in the value of the
naira.
“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.”
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