Catholic priest and the Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry in Enugu, Rev.-Father Ejike Mbaka, on Friday met behind closed-door with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Mbaka stirred controversy earlier in the year when he delivered a message that former President Goodluck Jonathan would fail in the presidential election.
He had said that the Holy Spirit told him Jonathan was not favoured to continue as President going by the state of the Nigerian economy and widespread insecurity, which he had failed to contain.The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, in a statement quoted the President as telling Mbaka that the best exhortations to the nation he had heard from the pulpit was the one made earlier in the year by Mbaka.
Adesina quoted the President as commending the Catholic priest’s exemplary courage.
“Thank you very much for what you have done and said, it brought you out to the whole country as a man of courage.
“It was honest and well delivered. It has gone into the records as one of the best concerns expressed from the pulpit, not because it favoured me and my party, the All Progressives Congress, but because it was good for the country,” the President was further quoted as telling Mbaka.
Buhari reaffirmed his conviction that change would come to the country, “with a lot of hard work, despite the security and economic problems.”
He appealed for the continued understanding and patience of Nigerians.