Enugu Catholic priest, and Spiritual Director of the
Adoration Ministry, 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.
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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