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I was with a pastor of one of the fastest growing Lagos-based Pentecostal churches and we spent half of the time on Sunday talking about the Mbaka message. Ejike Mbaka is the Enugu-based Catholic priest who said on New Year’s Eve that time was up for President Goodluck Jonathan and asked him to step down.
My host said he had watched the 21-minute video more than once. On the website www.buzzmention.com, a social media aggregator, Mbaka’s message dented Jonathan’s rating against his APC rival, Muhammadu Buhari, and is still trending.
My host said that as he watched the video the second time, alone with his wife, he turned to her and said it was a shame that this message was coming from the south east. “I told my wife that it’s a pity that, until now, no other pastor or clergy had the courage to say what Mbaka has said. It was blunt. And this is coming from the south east where we thought it was always all about the money,” the pastor said.
He was right. Not necessarily about the courage part. I had said in my column last week that since there’s no way to keep predictors honest, if they say God said, you either take it or leave it. In any case, since the first family – and apparently many prominent politicians – has formed the habit of going to bed with prophets, they cannot cry foul when they are at the receiving end.
Apparently, it was not only what Mbaka said that shocked my host; it was also where it was coming from. Until now, there was hardly any political calculation of the 2015 presidential election that did not assign 100% of the votes in the south east to Jonathan. It was often assumed that he had bought off the south east and locked it away.
However, after Mbaka’s message, delivered to thousands of jubilant followers in Enugu and from elsewhere in the south east, the pundits will have to return to the drawing board.
The south east is in ferment. Three days after Mbaka’s message, the press reported that Ohaneze Ndigbo failed to endorse Jonathan. That does not confer automatic advantage on Buhari. But what it shows clearly is that even though Abuja politicians from the south east may be telling Jonathan what he wants to hear, conditions on the ground are far more complicated.
Let me return to Mbaka. He is not a stranger to controversy. He first came to limelight around 2002, when he accused Chimaroke Nnamani’s government of extrajudicial killings. Among those killed on Nnamani’s watch at the time in Enugu were Sunday Ugwu, whom the killers mistook for his brother Nwabueze, a state legislator and thorn in the side of Nnamani; Engineer Nwankwo, brother to Arthur Nwankwo; and Professor Chimere Ikoku, former vice chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Mbaka raised the alarm against the spate of killings and, for daring to speak up, assassins were sent after him. He narrowly escaped death in one of the attacks during which his car was reportedly stopped, and assassins fired at him from point-blank range. Like him or hate him, the man has earned his stripes.
Some people in Jonathan’s camp may be telling him that the priest’s message was a hatchet job paid for by the opposition. Already, foot soldiers are at work, calling Mbaka names and accusing him of double-speak. He has received death threats and the church might yet wield the big stick. I hope not. I hope what John Cardinal Onaiyekan said about punishing Mbaka was his personal opinion.
Those who now despise Mbaka must remember that this same priest and the Jonathans have been good friends. When the first lady visited him in November and, on her knees, asked for his blessing and a sign that her husband would be reelected, few knew about it. Fewer still knew about the sign Mbaka gave on that visit – of one of the four birds that refused to fly, or details of what he discussed with the first lady after the midnight service at Adoration Ground.
If the first lady and her household have made a habit of prophesy tourism, they’ll have to take the good with the bad. Mbaka and the Jonathans deserve each other. I’ve said it before that when a president wears religion – any religion – on his sleeves, not to adhere to its precepts but to use it to cover his incompetence, he will end up a victim of his own fantasy.
What, in any case, did Mbaka say that is causing so much misery in the president’s camp? He lamented the current state of insecurity, massive unemployment – especially among youths, poor state of public schools and infrastructure and the endemic corruption and stealing on Jonathan’s watch. Of course, he also ruffled ecclesiastic feathers by accusing top clergy of condoning and profiting from the drift.
Rather than stitching Mbaka in a wet blanket, Jonathan should face the points at issue and tell the public exactly what he has done in these areas. His first duty is to secure the country. An article in The Guardian by Sonala Olumhense on May 6, 2012, listed at least 26 vows by Jonathan between 2011 and 2012 to end Boko Haram. As you read this piece, a chunk of this country, the size of Northern Ireland, is under the control of Boko Haram. Yet, things are getting worse.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, unemployment in Nigeria was 21.4 per cent in 2010, 23.9 per cent in 2011, and 25.7 per cent in 2012. It’s been progressively worse since Jonathan started his first term.
When Jonathan took over, total power generation was 4,200MW. An insider once told me that he vowed that he would not even think of a second term if power supply remained at that level. Then he plunged into a power privatisation programme bereft of a gas master plan. Today, power generation is around 2,900MW, and falling. It’s a measure of how much power has improved that Aso Rock’s budget for generator maintenance is still knocking on one billion naira.
Corruption festers while the government looks the other way as it piles up committee upon committee.
It would be uncharitable to say Jonathan has done nothing. But the answer to Mbaka’s message is not to insult him, threaten to penalise him, or accuse him of betrayal without proof.
Let the president say what he has done, for which he deserves a second term, apart from adding Azikiwe and Ebele to his name. That’s the heart of Mbaka’s message.

by Oti Iroegbu

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Go get a Job. change is sweeping through this nation!!you can't stop it my dear. Buhari won almost 40% of the votes with CPC alone without any governor or senator or the bad 4 years Jonathan has used to confirm his return to otueke. My brother badluck is preparing his house in otueke for his home coming and your here sressing yourself.

ShakaZullu:
Gej will arrest him after reelection then we will hang him on the gallows



Buhari is a certified terrorist
Apc is BOKOHARAM
Tinubu is a bastard
Osinbajo is a mugu
Gej till 2019

Daguccizgreat:
BUHARI WHERE IS UR CERTIFICATE

he doesn't have one but we will still vote out bad luck n corruption and vote him in

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That's why your name is dopeAngel

DopeAngel:
I have nothing to comment. He is the president he can do as he likes. Whether he chooses to appoint buhari as his house help, he is still our MAN! GEJ carry on and let your critics die!

DopeAngel:
I have nothing to comment. He is the president he can do as he likes. Whether he chooses to appoint buhari as his house help, he is still our MAN! GEJ carry on and let your critics die!

that's why your name is dopeAngel

I have been reading a lot of post on Buhari and Jonathan. What I have noticed is that people voting for Jonathan can't even articulate what he has done and why he should be returned after more than 6 years as president. I must confess I was his supporter when he first started. I was hoping that finally Nigeria has a president who is not an elite, who at some point allegedly had no shoes and who then can empathise with the issues of the common man and work had for that common man by marking fundamental changes that will finally start eliminating corruption so that got monies can actually be used to revolutionise infrastructure, rehabilitate health care, Electricity and industrialise Nigeria to the benefit of the proverbial common man. However, am surprised that what we have seen is a president who thinks (he actually believes this) stealing is not corruption (he said this with his own mouth under no duress oh), under whom we have witnessed meteoric rise and stealing of public funds among public officials, subsidy scam where sons of highly placed govt officials and politicians literally stole billions of our money with no consequence, where a politician who was convicted of grave public corruption is pardoned and is preparing to go to the Senate, where someone organised the immigration recruitment and extorted money from jobless youths and hundreds were killed at the so called recruitment scam with no consequence, where ministers are being shielded from answering questions on corruption, where custom immigration and NDLEA officials are openly demanding bribes at our airport (right at the first pot of entry into Nigeria). Where lives of Nigerian's don't matter people are being killed and kidnapped in thousands and GEJ sitting comfortably in aso rock... If we love the next generation we need change . Period! . Of course am not saying the opposition are saints. But I am convinced that buhari/Osinbajo ticket will be better than Jonathan. I would even rather have obasanjo than Jonathan. A president that went to minna hilltop house of a corrupt past leader that should be to answering for years of entrenching corruption, stealing billions and drug dealership in nigeria to beg for his support and calling him his father. what's the difference between Babangida and Abacha? The only difference is that Abacha died in office. Hasn't he been probed and made to return billions of $$ stashed abroad even in death so question is where is our billions of $$$ stolen by IBB? GEJ should be asking him that not glorifying corruption. We can use that $$ to transform our educational and health facilities. GEJ supporters only use fear mongering about buhari to support him. But what has he done tangible to arrest corruption in Nigeria and transform it? These are not trivial issues.

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its funny people are expecting this government to be different from the PDP corruption, wastage, impunity and bad governance of the past 15 years

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