The Presidency, Friday, reacted formally to the call for President Muhammadu Buhari’s impeachment by Father Mbaka, the Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry, Enugu.
In a statement issued by Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, the Presidency said Mbaka’s recent outbursts were because he came to the President with three contractors and demanded that he be given contracts as reward for supporting the President but was not given.
Father Mbaka had, on Wednesday, announced that he was withdrawing his support for President Muhammadu Buhari because God was angry with him over his poor handling of the security situation in the country with many innocent Nigerians being gruesomely murdered, daily, by bandits, Boko Haram terrorists and their other comrades in crime.
Mbaka, therefore, summed up everything and called for the President’s impeachment.
Mbaka was a strong supporter of President Buhari in the 2015 and 2019 elections, when he described him as the Messiah Nigeria and Nigerians had been waiting for.
But reacting to the call for the President’s resignation, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu said that Father Mbaka had reached out to the President for contract which was not given to him.
The statement titled, Father Mbaka is everything apart from what he claims, reads:
“An outsider distilling the avalanche of verbiage, will be surprised that after supporting the President two times to win the Presidency, Father Mbaka has made a complete U-Turn, preposterously asking President Buhari to resign or be impeached.
”Here is the point of departure: Father Mbaka asked for a meeting and to the shock of Presidential Aides, he came accompanied by three contractors. The President graciously allowed them in, and to everyone’s surprise, Father Mbaka asked for contracts as compensation for his support.
“Anyone familiar with President Buhari knows that he doesn’t break the laid down rules in dealing with contracts or any other government business for that matter. He requested the appropriate authorities to deal with the matter in accordance with laid down rules.
“Inside the Villa, discretion prevailed, that if those pictures and requests were made public, the followers will turn against the religious leader. None of it was released. Now, this is what is eating Father Mbaka.”
