Bishop Simeon Okah, the principal patriarch of
the Flock of Christ Mission, Enerhen-Effurun,
Delta State, has urged President Muhammadu
Buhari to forget about contesting in 2019.
Bishop Okah claimed that the president is already too
old to pilot the affairs of the country. He also
denounced President Buhari as the most unfavourable
Nigerian President to the people of Niger Delta region.
“T he man is an old man, old man is old, I am quite
younger than he is. I am 64 years old, do you know
that without the younger ones around me, there are
some things about this generation that I cannot on my
own understand because their way of thinking is very
different from my way of thinking, not to talk of a man
like Buhari?
“First, Buhari is too old, secondly, he is not educated
enough. It pains my heart that just because former
President Goodluck Jonathan is from South-South,
there was a general hatred against him by the north
and maybe the west.
“We, who travel, they were telling us that we were
blessed to have a man who has PhD as a president,
what does Buhari have apart from him being a
general? ” he said in an interview with Vanguard.
Bishop Okah disagreed with Rev. Ejike Mbaka who
praised Buhari as the liberator of Nigerians.
“Well, facts speak for themselves. What has he
liberated, is it the economy, what? So when you say he
is a liberator, what has he liberated?
“Rather, he has worsened the state of everything in this
country; he took over government when naira was
between 170 and 190 to a dollar but today how much
is it ?" the Bishop asked.
“When he was campaigning, he said he would make
one naira to one dollar, but what is the position today,
the man has destroyed almost everything he met,
everything Jonathan labored for. Everything is nose-
diving in the country.
“Look at the stock exchange. He inherited a stock
exchange of over N13 trillion. Today, it is about N8 to
N9 trillion. What happened to N4 trillion?
“It is people’s money, so to me, this government,
particularly, in my own sense of judgment, there are too
many lies and lies go with depression and depression
goes with oppression.
“People who are supposed to invest are asking
questions, where are the blueprints for his economic
programme.? Almost two years are gone, nothing. This
is the very first time in our history that it took a
president, who won an election over six months to
appoint ministers.
“And the people he appointed are the same corrupt
people, who had to cross-carpet from PDP to APC; we
thought he was going to bring angels from the moon
the way he initially spoke about people that would
make his cabinet, but finally, they were the same
people that we knew in this country.
“As a man from South-South, I feel very bad the way
we have been treated. Look at the oil blocks too, how
many belong to people from the South-South? in the
first place, why should the Nigerian government
consider giving oil blocks to individuals instead of state
government?
“Why should such huge amount of money go into hands
of very few individuals? If we want to build a nation,
these are questions that we need to ask, ” the Bishop
stated.
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