Jonathan ‘Ill Lose this Year's Election, Predicts Enugu Catholic Priest
Less than six weeks to this year's Presidential election, fiery catholic priest and founder of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka has lampooned President Goodluck Jonathan over what he described as his poor performance in the past six years, predicting that the second term aspiration of the president would not succeed.
This came less than a month after the same priest anointed First Lady Patience Jonathan, assuring her that the president's second term would not be truncated. But this time around, he said the reality on ground as well as revelation from God did not favour Jonathan's continuity beyond May 29 this year.
Delivering a sermon tagged, “From Good luck to Bad luck” during the end-of-year Adoration mass to usher in the New Year Wednesday night, Father Mbaka said he and millions of other fellow compatriots were disappointed by Jonathan’s administration which had failed to ensure the release of the Chibok girls kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorists since over 200 days ago.
Rev. Fr. Mbaka had recently anointed Mrs. Patience Jonathan as the next Nigerian First Lady in 2015. That was when the First Lady, alongside the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Nwanneka, worshiped at the Adoration Ministry where the First Lady admitted that she experienced “a spiritual rebirth.”
Fr. Mbaka also did something symbolic after anointing Mrs. Jonathan that day – he released some birds to go and fight for Jonathan.
But last Wednesday night at the end-of-year Adoration mass, Fr. Mbaka said Jonathan was going nowhere as far as next year’s election was concerned, recalling that one of the birds – which symbolised the President – he released during Mrs. Jonathan’s visit to the Adoration Ground refused to fly.
“All the other birds I released flew away but the healthiest of them which is Jonathan’s bird could not fly. I tried to make it fly but it could not fly,” he recalled to the huge excited congregation that cheered him on.
The vocal priest thumbed down President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration, accusing the president of surrounding himself with very corrupt public officials, whose corrupt activities he had turned blind eye to while millions of Nigerians suffered daily in abject poverty and endless insecurity.
He told a large crowd of worshippers at the Amorji Nike, Enugu Adoration Ground, that “Jonathan has ruled for six years .We need change. NEPA is not working because of corruption. The privatisation of public companies has not yielded any fruit because of corruption. Jonathan surrounded himself with very corrupt officers who advise him.
“Nigerians are sick and tired of wasting innocent lives without government doing enough to stop the destruction.”
The cleric told the congregation of over 30,000 worshippers that he resisted delivering the sermon which he said came from the Holy Ghost but God warned him to ensure the message was given to the nation not minding whose ox was gored. Mbaka also expressed surprise over the huge attendance.
Commenting on the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Party (APC), and former Military Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), Fr. Mbaka, who said he was not being partisan, observed that Buhari could not islamise Nigeria as being rumoured in some circles. He confessed that he had never met the General before but recalled that he fought corruption seriously as Head of State.
“I don’t know Buhari. I have never sat with him before. I am not being partisan, but I want total change in Nigeria. Buhari cannot make Nigeria an Islamic country because we are in democracy. It was IBB government that dragged Nigeria into OIC. When Buhari fought corruption, people became careful about their actions.
Anyone who says Buhari will islamise Nigeria is not being fair,” said Mbaka, who announced that he was not bothered whether the next President would be a Northerner or Yoruba or Igbo so long the person fought corruption and meant well for the citizens.
“If a northerner will rule the country and insecurity will stop, so be it. If a Yoruba man will rule Nigeria in 2015 and we have peace and stop the shedding of innocent blood, so be it. Nigerians are tired of wasting innocent lives,” he said.
The end-of-year Adoration mass was attended by some notable politicians from Enugu, Ebonyi and Anambra States.