Father Mbaka predicts that Atiku will win next year's poll despite him being a bureau de change

FIERY clergyman Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka has predicted that Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will win next year's elections despite him not being someone who can be trusted with the fight against corruption.

Pastor Mbaka, the spiritual director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, achieved national fame in 2014 when during a Christmas mass he predicted impending doom for the then President Goodluck Jonathan. Since then, however, he has become a fierce critic of the Buhari administration, accusing the government of betraying the hope a lot of Nigerians had in it.

Yesterday, Reverend Mbaka offered his views on the forthcoming elections, saying that while President Muhammadu Buhari is change, former vice president Atiku Abubakar is bureau de change. He described Atiku as bureau de change because of the foreign currencies that allegedly exchanged hands at the PDP national convention in Port Harcourt where it picked it presidential candidate.

Reverend Mbaka predicted that Atiku will defeat Buhari in 2019 but warned him not to emulate Buhari if he is elected the president. Speaking while addressing his congregation at the Adoration Ground, Reverend Mbaka said that President Buhari had all the human and material resources at his disposal to make the country better but rather chose to play ethnic, despotic politics.

“So let the will of God be done in Nigeria. It is like what I have been saying Buhari change or you will be changed”

“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 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," Father Mbaka added.

Speaking further, Father Mbaka described the cost of All Progressives Congress expression of interest and nomination forms as outrageous. According to him, if the leadership of the party had any conscience, it would not have collected N24m from people to obtain the forms.

He added: “There are some people that sold their land to pay for this form because of the promises they were made. I don’t think these politicians were thinking of heaven that is why they are ready to kill anybody that stands on their way.”

However, Reverend Mbaka said that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar may not be able to solve the problems of Nigeria if he emerged victorious. He added that there are people who will develop this nation but President Buhari surrounded himself with people who do not have the required vision.