In a video message, Mr
Mbaka urged the devotees at his popular Adoration Ground in Enugu to desist
from speaking evil against the president.
Catholic priest, Ejike
Mbaka, has said that plans are being hatched to murder President Muhammadu
Buhari over his uncompromising stand on corruption.
“So I want to tell you that so far, God is
happy with Buhari. And him whom God has blessed, may you not try to accurse, because
God will curse you,” said the priest.
“Many people are planning,
as it is revealed, to kill him. There are many plans on how to eliminate his
life so that corruption will continue, so that quantum embezzlement will
continue.
“But the Lord says ‘God who
put you there will not forsake you. Be firm, be resolute, remain focused, and
be unbiased. Refuse to be intimidated and refuse to be distracted. Go ahead and
war against evil. President Buhari, go ahead and war against corruption.
President Buhari, God and his people are behind you, you are the answer of the
prayers of the people, amen.’”
Premium Times who is
exclusively reporting this, could not ascertain the exact date of the message,
but it addressed recent occurrences, including the hardship being experienced
by Nigerians.
The priest attributed the
hardship to past leaders who corruptly enriched themselves and their cronies,
adding that all of them – from local government chairmen to presidents – ought
to be in exile by now.
“It doesn’t matter the man
of God they worship with, I tell you before God and man, all of them are
wicked. They hate this country,” he said.
“They succeeded in removing
the liver, kidneys, and cardiovascular systems of this country, and paralyzed
the neurological organs and handed over to Buhari, the new president, shambles,
skeleton almost, a nation that is comatic.
“Nigeria right now,
economically, security wise, is in the intensive care unit. If the oxygen is
removed, Nigeria will go.
“The entire money voted for
hospitals were looted out.
“Corruption was in quantum.
To the level that the Nigerian bishops had to compose a prayer – Prayer against
Bribery and Corruption, and assured all the Catholics to be praying that prayer
every day after the Communion.
“All the money voted for
road constructions were swindled, eaten. Many of them became millionaires and
billionaires in Naira, in Dollars, in Pounds, in Euro. Billionaires, when they
have no workshop, no business centre. Somebody who has nothing he’s doing, yet
he’s a billionaire, because he’s a politician.”
In the run up to the 2015
presidential election, Mr. Mbaka threw his weight behind Mr. Buhari, urging his
teeming followers to cast their votes for him as the solution to the pervading
corruption and insecurity in the country.
In December last year,
after Mr. Buhari emerged president, he hosted the priest at the presidential
villa where he praised his “exemplary courage.”
Controversy erupted one
month later when the Catholic Church transferred Mr. Mbaka out of his parish
and away from his ministry, a decision the church staunchly defended as “normal
church procedure.”
But the priest continued to
deliver his pro-Buhari messages culminating in the president felicitating with
him last month as he marked 21 years of priesthood.
In his recent message, Mr.
Mbaka said Mr. Buhari was God’s answer to Nigeria’s corruption problems.
“People of God prayed from
here and there, God answered our prayers and gave us Muhammadu Buhari,” he
said.
“And I want to tell you
today, God has told us that Buhari is a prayer answered. President Buhari is an
answered prayer. Whether you hate him or whether you like him, Buhari is a
prayer answered.
“The bishops of Nigeria,
the Catholics prayed against bribery and corruption and this president came
with a magna charter that has to do with war against corruption.
“All the prayers we have
been doing against corruption, God answered that prayer through a Muslim, who
decided not to discriminate.
“There’s nothing like
religious, racial discrimination in Buhari’s administration. He’s a man for
all, he means good for this country, and we owe him support; unalloyed support,
consistent support, perennial support, unstoppable support, spiritual and
otherwise.”
Mr. Mbaka also said that
contrary to the criticisms of marginalization usually levelled against
President Buhari’s administration, no section of the country is being
marginalised.
“Our past…not our past
leaders, our past looters, you may not understand, looters, embezzlers pissed
on the political positions, have eaten the cake of this country and now
everybody is suffering it,” he said.
“The youths are suffering
it. And they want to tell you that we are marginalized. The Yorubas are not
marginalized, the Hausas are not marginalized, Efik people are not
marginalized, and the Igbo people are not marginalized.
“In the present political
scenario, Igbo people have the ministerial position for Minister for External
Affairs, full portfolio, in the person of Onyeama. Igbo people have the
portfolio for Science and Technology, in the person of Ogbonnaya Onu.
“You go to Abia, we have
the Industry and Commerce. Come over to Anambra, we have the Labour and
Employment. And the problem of this country today is employment. If our youths
are well employed, kidnapping will go. Kidnapping was a child of the past
administration. They delivered that ugly baby, and that baby resembled them.”
The priest urged the
congregation to reject any claims that the Igbos were being marginalised by the
current government, insisting that the present hardship is the product of
“intrinsically corrupt past political” activities.
“Many of you were
intimidated and you will say what they want you to say,” he said.
“But that is not the case.
It is my job to put your mind right. When anybody want you to say that Igbos
are marginalized, don’t believe it.
“The Igbos in the north are
doing well, and the northern people are not chasing them away. The Igbos in the
Yoruba land, go to Idumota, go to Alaba, Ladipo and so on, they are treated
with utter hospitality, with innovative kindness. The Yoruba people are not
fighting the Igbo people, so why are we evolving a war that does not exist.
“And as I said in the
former message, those who are engineering this have their children abroad and
they want to use our youths, unemployed and say come out of the road and begin
to walk around, that Igbos are marginalized. Our roads were not done. By the
end of this year, you will know who ate the money of these roads.”
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