Mbaka: Buhari Working With Those Who Will Pull Him Down

THE Enugu Catholic priest, and Spiritual Director
of Adoration Ministry, Enugu State, Rev. Fr. Ejike
Mbaka has said President Muhammadu Buhari
currently works with some people who do not
want him to succeed in office and are desperate
to pull him down.
Mbaka has been one of Buhari’s most vocal
supporters since he asked Nigerians to reject
former president Goodluck Jonathan in the run-
up to the 2015 presidential election. The priest
also said it was too early to give Buhari’s regime
a dispassionate assessment, saying Nigerians
should give the President more time.
The Enugu-based cleric said the reason the
country was yet to experience the real change
being midwifed by Buhari was that some
strategic positions were still manned by the
same people who milked the country dry in the
past.
He said the president was not totally free from
the grip of those who ran the country aground in
the past.
Mbaka, who spoke to newsmen in Enugu during
the graduation of Niger Delta youths, who trained
at Innoson Plastic Factory under Federal
Government’s Amnesty Programme, said: “The
government we are experiencing is not yet a
Buharinised government.
“Many people who are in different strategic
positions are still the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) people and Buhari may not even know and
even some people who are working around him
are working to pull him down.
“Buhari means well, Buhari is a good man, Buhari
is God-sent for this country but, I am telling you
that there are crocodiles in the fish pond.
“Buhari may not know that he is feeding not the
fish in the fishpond but crocodiles that are even
feeding on the fishes!”
He urged Nigerians to be prayerful to counter the
activities of those he said were plotting to break
the country and take over power. Mbaka had, a
month ago come down hard on the Buhari
regime, saying there was hunger in the land and
that the President may not get the nod of
Nigerians to get another term in office if the
trend continued.
He added: “Nigerians should go on their knees
and pray for divine intervention because apart
from God, we are going to see horrible things.
The way these people are ganging up, they want
to break Nigeria and take over power and take
us back to where we were coming from. I pray it
shall be well with Nigeria and it shall be well with
Nigerians.”
The cleric, who predicted the victory of Buhari in
the 2015 presidential election, said he was yet to
see the change he wants in Nigeria through the
present government.
“I am talking about change from corruption to
moral probity, a time Nigeria will become a
country that is worthy of emulation, that
internationally when you mention Nigeria,
Nigerians shall begin to smile. I am talking about
change that is beyond embezzlement of funds
meant for the development of the people and
country. Only few people who call themselves
politicians will be stealing the money and
whatever they are doing with it nobody knows.
“The poor masses are dying and they are
enriching themselves wickedly calling themselves
politicians, so, such team of people should be
changed and if some of them are still remaining
and they want to come back, I still pray that the
broom of God will sweep them out because
Nigeria must move forward.
“These people are wicked, they are not Nigerians
per say, I don’t know where their blood came
from because they are not representing us; they
are representing themselves and the devil that is
using them.
“If you know the pattern of their regime, the way
they move and the way they truncate the
activities that will be for the wellness of the poor
masses, you’ll know that some of them are
possessed and they need deliverance before they
enter that seat.”
He, however, said it was too early to assess
President Buhari and asked Nigerians to give the
Buhari government the chance to implement its
change agenda.
Praying for the liberation of Nigeria, the Catholic
clergyman said: “I pray that our authentic
emancipation, what we call change will be
supernaturally propelled because right now you
can see the hand writing everywhere, many
people are complaining of hunger but the hunger
is not Buhari engendered.
“Many are complaining that Buhari has not
started changing everything, Buhari is not a
magician.
“Like I used to tell people, somebody had been
cooking in the kitchen for six years and he did
not feed us well and just few months ago,
somebody entered the same kitchen and all of
us want him to cook a very wonderful delicious
soup whereby his water is still in the pot. He has
not started putting ingredients and people are
testing the water and saying he cannot cook
well. Let us give him a chance to pour the whole
ingredients into the pot and when he is done
with cooking, we can now judge him.
“It is too early to judge a man who has just
entered few months ago, remember, even the
budget is being attacked, padding or no padding
and some people want to baptise criminal
fraudulent machination with the name padding
as a non criminal offence. So, when you steal
money that is in billions, it is padding and that
one is a no offence?
“But catch a poor man that steals a phone of
N20, 000, he will be burnt alive.”