Blame Jonathan, not Buhari for hunger, poverty in Nigeria, says Mbaka

Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka yesterday responded to reports that he “attacked” President Muhammadu Buhari.
Online news portal, Premium Times, quoting a statement by Mbaka’s media aide, Maximus Ugwuoke, reported that the cleric only stated the obvious, saying that former president Goodluck Jonathan should be held responsible for the level of poverty and hunger bedevilling the country.
He called on President Buhari to “abate the long procrastination, bureaucracy and slow methods in tackling it.”
He also urged President Buhari to be “careful about how he appoints people to prominent positions, so that no region will appear marginalized as it happened in NNPC board.”
Recall that Mbaka had on Tuesday said that President Buhari should sit up and address the hunger, poverty, and economic challenges the country is facing or risk losing the 2019 election. His statement read in parts: “How can we be fighting somebody who is fighting for us? Apart from this Buhari, how can somebody talk to these political juggernauts and tell them to bring back what they have stolen? It is only a Beniah personality like Buhari that can enter into the cave and catch a lion and kill a lion in a snowy season and come out. The president needs support. He doesn’t know where to begin because there are many holes dug for him by the past administration, and they carried the sand away. What are we expecting him to cover the holes with?”
Ugwuoke stressed that Fr. Mbaka merely reiterated what Nigerians already knew. He wondered which part of Mbaka’s message could be viewed as “an attack or bombing” of Mr President as reported in media banner headlines. “The acclaimed message of the cleric to Mr President to us is rather a further demonstration of the cleric’s love to see that the president succeeds in his messianic rescue operation mission in Nigeria and that is why it is devoid of hypocrisy. It is obvious that those who are twisting the said message of the cleric as an attack on Mr President are those who want him to fail or be blindfolded so as to use the obvious hardship Nigerians are facing as a weak point of his administration to ride onto power mindless of the fact that Mr President has done so well in fighting corruption and insurgency in the country, which are mega achievements that score him above average in just few months of his administration,” Ugwuoke said.