Catholic Priest, Ejike Mbaka, has declared support for President
Muhammadu Buhari, urging Nigerians to vote for him (Mr Buhari) in the
presidential elections in February.
“A President that is fighting
corruption needs to be supported”, Mr Mbaka said on Tuesday during his New Year
prophetic message and crossover service.
This is coming a month after the
priest had at his church bazaar promised to make predictions regarding the
future of Nigeria during the presidential elections.
Mr Mbaka, who seems to have
ignored critics over his support for Mr Buhari, urged Nigerians to pray hard so
that the country would overcome what he described as ‘impending unimaginable
difficulty’ in 2019.
“We pray for President Muhammadu
Buhari; he is a man who understands the situation. Since Nigeria started, we
have never experienced a President that has agricultural programmes like him.
“For 16 years, the road from
Anambra to Enugu was overgrown with weeds but within four years, the road is
being reconstructed and the same way they are doing it to Umuahia. This one
that remembered us, may God bless him.
“Four years doesn’t mean eight
years; he has finished his four years. I pray for peaceful transition that he
may complete his remaining four years. He will hand over to a better person,
may the Lord keep him. When he was sick, he was almost dead and we said prayer
and God granted him healing. God knows the purpose for allowing him to be
alive; if God doesn’t want him, he could have died.
“The roads that were not going has started going. A lot of
things are happening now which nobody knows. May the lord protect Buhari; it
shall be well with our President.”
Mr Mbaka, the Spiritual Director
of Adoration Ministry, has over the years become famous for using his platform
to make political statements before presidential or governorship elections in
Nigeria.
Before the 2015 general election,
Mr Mbaka had predicted Mr Buhari’s victory at the polls which drew him
criticism by many South-easterners.
The clergyman was in the news recently when he openly criticised
the vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who
refused to make open financial donations to his ministry during a 2018
celebration.
Peter Obi had promised to make his
own donation later after the event attended by many politicians, including Mr
Buhari, who donated N2 million through his representative, Hope Uzodinma.
But the controversial priest could not have it.
“In your capacity and what God has done for you as Governor… God
hates stinginess. What I am saying is not to please you, but what will save
your life. Otherwise you and Atiku will fail,” he said with hands firmly
clutched on Obi’s wrist in the video now widely shared on social media and
criticised by many Nigerians.
“If there is a place they will
coat words for you, it is not at Mbaka’s altar. You can save your political
destiny. Or in 2019, you people will not even know how they did the election.
What will make my brother to come for bazaar and he won’t even break kola? Your
own is taking time; the way you and Atiku [Abubakar] are moving will end in
shame.”
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