Ahead 2019 Elections: "There is a plot to shame and disgrace you..." Fr. Mbaka warns Buhari

                                                   


- Don't contest again, he advises 

By Innocent Imoh                                     
                                                     
Popular Enugu-based cleric and staunch supporter of the current administration prior to their emergence in 2015, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to contest the forthcoming presidential election in 2019, describing Mr President as a good man who is caged.

According to media reports, Mbaka said this during an exclusive chat with the publisher of Sahara Reporters and 2019 presidential aspirant, Omoyele Sowore.
                                                       
When Mbaka’s opinion was sought ahead of Buhari’s 2019 ambition, the spiritual director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, had this to say:
“I’m asked to advise you, don’t come out for the second tenure; after this, and retire peacefully. Come back to yourself or you will cry by the time you will be sent out of office. Those who are encouraging you to come out and run again want to disgrace you shamefully and publicly.

“The country needs change, as I said Buhari is a good man but because of a lot of factors around him, those around him are not telling him the truth, even when they tell him the truth and he gives orders they go and mutilate it and tell him that everybody is happy and that everything is moving well.

“We need God to give us someone after his own heart, who can emancipate Nigeria, because Nigeria is the heart of Africa, is the hub of Africa; forget about South Africa or whatever she is doing. Nigeria is Africa because when Nigeria is good, Africa is good.”
                                                           
The cleric also stressed that Buhari meant well for the country but cannot do what he wants because of the people he surrounded himself with.

“Buhari meant well for the country but I can see Buhari as a man whose ideologies has been kidnapped, I can see somebody that is bemused, I can see a man that is confused, I can see Buhari in spite of his goodwill he has some people around him that has no ideology that is in tandem with his,” he said in parts.

                                                             
“Am not against his leadership because he has not given me anything, am only unhappy with him because he doesn’t want to make necessary changes.

“The much I know about Buhari is he meant well, but it’s too unfortunate that he is caged by people who are not telling him the truth,” Mbaka said.

It will be recalled that on 2015 New Year day, Fr. Mbaka anointed Buhari as President, he chanted APC slogan and was said to have been paid by Buhari for rooting for him ahead of presidential election, an accusation the clergy vehemently denied.