He said the priest should center around his command of engendering the gospel and affecting ethics, rather than confounding the political space. Chief Eya noticed that he had thought about ignoring the evangelist’s message, yet chose generally following the errand person’s vitrolics on the office of previous Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), whom he depicted as his solitary deal in 2019 decisions.
The PDP chieftain said, “Why is Fr. Mbaka describing my Party’s candidate in the coming elections as ‘bureau de change?’ If the PDP shared money during its primary election as the Rev. Father pointed out in his message, how does it now make a political party’s affairs religious? The Catholic Bishop of Enugu must caution Fr. Mbaka now. We can all remember vividly how he predicted the victory of Buhari which has brought us to this stage of 100% lack and deprivation, even of the rule of law.”
Fr. Mbaka was quoted to have said “if anybody is thinking that if Atiku becomes the President of Nigeria, things will get better, ‘who born you’, because for this country to be good, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than this country to be good.”
Mbaka had described Atiku as bureau de change, according to him, because of the foreign currencies that allegedly exchanged hands at the National Convention of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, before the ex-VP emerged the party’s presidential candidate. Mbaka however predicted that Atiku will defeat Buhari in 2019 but warned him not to emulate Buhari if he is elected the president. The fiery cleric said this while addressing his congregation at the Adoration Ground. Mbaka said that Buhari had all the human and material resources at his disposal to make the country better but rather chose to play ethnic, despotic politics. He said,
What will it take you; change the Chief of Staff, change B, change C, change this and change that; even if it will take 20 Igbo men or 20 Yoruba men to change Nigeria; take all of them. Look at what (Chukwuma) Soludo did in the Central Bank; he has assured Nigeria and the whole world that there is nothing like bank collapse again. An Igbo man did this, why can’t Buhari take Soludo for the economic revival and revamping of Nigeria’s economy? And you are busy talking about corruption, playing game with the lives of Nigerians from the issue of Fulani herdsmen to Boko Haram to Jos killings. You said somebody stole, what did he steal?
“Someday, they said the government has spent trillions of naira on social investment scheme and I want to know who are the people they were spending the money on; the Vice President said they are giving N10,000 to small scale businesses and I asked, is this how they will transform Nigeria? You give somebody N10,000 for business, what type of business will N10,000 start?
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