The Spiritual Director, Holy
Ghost Adoration Ministry, Uke, Anambra State, Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Obimma,
popularly known as Ebubemonso, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to resign.
The
cleric based his call on Buhari’s alleged inability to take charge of
happenings in the country.
Ebubemonso, who spoke as part of
activities marking his 7th year Priestly ordination at his Umudioka residence,
also demanded unreserved apology from the Federal Government to Ndigbo,
particularly members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
He accused Buhari’s government of
proscribing the group and branding them terrorists, “whereas terror groups like
the Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram killing people are handled with kid gloves.”
His speech read: “As you can see,
there is crisis in the country. President Muhammadu Buhari is not in control of
this country. People are dying on daily basis and I am not happy with it at
all.
“There is indeed crisis in the
country. I pray that our good Lord will salvage this country, Nigeria. There is
crisis, even though those in authority are denying that there is political
unrest in the country. I thank God, that God is answering our prayers. I
believe that very soon, all these frictions, fracas and crisis will come to an
end, because there is God.
“Well, my message for Muhammadu
Buhari is let him resign since he cannot control the country. I said let him
resign honourably because as you can see, he is not in control of the country,
not only that, he is a sectional leader, a tribalistic leader.
“So, my stand is let him resign,
as you can see his strength could no longer carry him. I am envisaging a
situation where he will not be alive to complete the second term, if he comes
out to campaign again. Let him resign honourably and find people who have the
strength and capacity of managing the nation to carry on the baton. Nigeria is
a big country and needs experts who have perfected in the political field to
take control of the affairs of the nation. President Buhari is not that man.
On the controversies over the
INEC’s 2019 election budget, he said: “the issue of INEC, the Senate and the
Presidency, there are so many interests; they are saying so many things that we
don’t know what to believe. I can’t say for sure but what I have to say is that
you can see the inclination of political interests in the entire episode.
“Mark my words, APC groups are
warming up to rig the election, as you can see the evidences are there. If by
vote counting, APC can never win any election. If it is by counting of votes,
there is no way this government will return because it is a government that is
built on selfishness, nepotism, injustice. Government that is killing people,
people are not happy with this government, so they knew that they under
performed. What of those promises that Muhammadu Buhari made to the Nation
before the election, none was accomplished, that, for me is a government of
deception, running a government with deceit, it is very very bad.”
He added that “after the promises
Buhari gave Nigerians before he was elected, nothing has changed. As you can
see, many of our youths are unemployed, many a times when I pass or walk around
the universities on mission, I see our young men, you know undergraduates,
battalions of them, I ask myself what plans has the federal government have but
as you can see, they don’t have any plan for them, that is why you will see
somebody after being a graduate, the person will engage in one business or the
other for him to survive.
“The hope of every average young
man in other countries, their efforts in entering the university, studying very
very hard and struggling to survive, trying to get degrees is for them to get a
good job, but in our country Nigeria nothing is sure. You are a graduate, you
have a wonderful certificate and that certificate is barren, certificate
without satisfaction and government has no plan. It’s a pity.
“You know it has been my greatest
worry. Go over there at the university and you will see people, you will see
men and women, you will see our young undergraduates, sons and daughters, you
know they are studying, but I am telling you that government has no plans for
them, especially this government of President Buhari. Nigeria has never experience
such a government, let Buhari stand up and tell us his achievements so far, let
him say what he has achieved so far.
“This government has really under
performed, really they came with the ideology of change but they didn’t change
anything, so we are praying for another change, this one is real change that
will upturn Buhari’s change that choked us. He came to power on false change
promises which many believed; even a prophet of God prayed for him because
everybody wanted change that will lead to a prosperous nation but here we are
from frying pan to fire. Buhari is a huge disappointment to Nigeria.”
The Priest did not spare the apex
Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, who he said were not
speaking out.
He said, “well, for me, Ohanaeze Ndigbo
should know that Igbos are being marginalized and their voices are not felt,
the voices of Ohanaeze Ndigbo is not felt. You know they are representing
Igbos, let them come out and stand for Igbos and let the world and Igbos know
they are standing for them, they can’t be answering Ohanaeze Ndigbo for
nothing.
“I am not trying to say that they
have not been making efforts but their efforts are not enough. Now IPOB came up
as a result of poor governance and they are agitating that the federal
government is marginalizing them. Igbos have been undergoing marginalization,
that was the crusade of Nnamdi Kanu and Nnamdi Kanu was suppressed and
intimidated, but I want to tell the Federal Republic of Nigeria that you can
never kill an ideology.
“Let there be a strong dialogue
between Ohaneze Ndigbo and IPOB to have one voice for Ndigbo. I advise the IPOB
to go for peace even in their agitations, let there be love. I stand here to
tell the country that their agitations are right. The agitations about the sovereign
state of Biafra, about intimidation and suppression, they are right, so let the
federal government look into it.
“If really Igbos are being
marginalized, let them do something, we can’t be answering one Nigeria for
mouth, just mere camouflage, one Nigeria on a table of sabotage. When you
stifle what is meant for general consumption, that is economic sabotage, when
you strangle what you supposed to give to brothers, that is wickedness.
“Let the federal government look
into these agitations; it won’t end by shooting them, killing them on daily
basis. Buhari should register an apology to Ndigbo for that kind of thing, how
can innocent people who are agitating be proscribed? They are freedom fighters
and Buhari proscribed them, branded them as terrorists whereas Boko Haram are
killing people and nobody has ever proscribed them or branded them as
terrorists. Fulani herdsmen are killing people on daily basis and nobody has
ever proscribed and branded them terrorists. But agitating youths in the South
East, my dear brothers were branded terrorists by their country Nigeria. Is
this not outright intimidation?”
Is only Almighty God that will punish any APC members and their generations if they rig 2019 election, but God will silence them to their grave
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