Resign now, your govt a disappointment, choking Nigerians – Fr. Ebubemonso attacks Buhari
State, Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Obimma, popularly known as Ebubemonso, has
asked President Muhammadu Buhari to resign.
DAILY POST reports that 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?"
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