Fr Mbaka denies Attacking Buhari, Turns on Jonathan Instead

A couple of days ago it was reported that controversial cleric Fr Mbaka had attacked Buhari and had predicted that he would lose the 2019 elections if things persisted.

The reverend father has now come out to state that he was not ‘attacking’ and in fact absolved him of the current crisis which he said was the fault of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

He said in a statement titled “Fr. Mbaka’s assertion `There is hunger in Nigeria’: Not an attack on President Buhari” that he had not attacked Buhari.

The statement said, “The news headline is not only sensational but also a censorious media colouration and hype of the message of the cleric titled, “Bless and Be Blessed” for whatever ends”,

Mbaka said that while he indeed bemoaned the level of hunger in the country, he laid that at the feet of former President Jonathan.

“There is a sword that is moving about in the country. People are dying like flies. The sword of Hunger is eating the land. And as I have told you, this is just the beginning. If anybody is telling you it is going to be well very soon that person is deceiving you. This is because many of us were among those that were alive during the years of the past government. The past PDP government was like the grasshoppers and locusts (regimes to Nigerian). The past government was a disaster to the land of Nigeria; the past government was cancer to this country. There is no need trying to cover their incalculable and iniquitous mess. If you don’t feel it now, you will feel it later”,

“Hunger is everywhere; the hunger was created before this new government came in. Buhari is not the maker of the hunger.

“The hunger was created during the Jonathan’s PDP administration but Buhari should abate the long procrastination, bureaucracy and slow methods in tackling it.

“That is why I have been saying and I keep on saying that the past administration should publicly come to apologize to Nigerians.

He, therefore maintained that  contrary to media reports, Fr. Mbaka merely reiterated the obvious sufferings that Nigerian are facing (which even the president himself had at points acknowledged and sued for patience and perseverance) and advised the president on the ways to tackle it, that is, by engaging economic gurus and listening to good advisers