Lagos cleric, Prophet Lai Bamidele, has come hard on the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, saying “the President has lost focus and he is now being controlled by forces that are beyond him.”
Bamidele, General Overseer of Glorious Christ End-time Evangelical Church, a church with headquarters in Lagos, said that after having descended from a mountain to pray and fast over the Nigerian situation, he did not see the President winning a second term come 2019.
Speaking with our correspondent, the prophet said, “During the time of former President Goodluck Jonathan, precisely in 2013, during which corruption walked on four legs and the country was on the brink of collapse, we cried unto the Lord.
“Then God told us that Jonathan would not get a second term and we published it in the newspapers. One of the South-South governors who is now a serving minister then replied me that I was a fake prophet. Then that governor had not quarreled with Jonathan. But see how things turned out.
“I am telling you today also that the President has lost focus and he is now being controlled by forces that are beyond him. I had warned him on many occasions and maybe those surrounding President Buhari don’t allow him to read newspapers. Surely, I did not see him winning a second term come 2019,” he said.
Prophet Bamidele lamented, saying “the masses have lost confidence in the President, especially in his ability to genuinely fight corruption and ensure fairness for our diverse ethnic groups.”
Specifically, he urged the President “to prove me wrong” by taking a decisive action on the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s report on the graft allegation against suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Alhaji Babachir Lawal, and the huge sums discovered at an Ikoyi, Lagos residence, leading to the suspension of the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Mr. Ayo Oke.
He also averred that the President, in all his political appointments, actions and inactions, “displayed a body chemistry that shows he is ethnic biased and unable to act against offenders that have ethnic affinity with him.”
Bamidele said the latest example was President Buhari’s “inability to set up a panel to probe allegations that the NNPC Group Managing Director, Maikanti Baru, unilaterally awarded contracts worth $25bn without recourse to the Board of the corporation.”
“If some people are agitating for break-up, then this administration should be blamed. If the leader has demonstrated fairness and transparency in his dealings, everyone will follow him; really, the unfolding drama is unfortunate,” he deplored.
The cleric noted that there was still room for the Nigerian leaders to repent and have the fear of God in the way they treat the citizenry, stressing that one ethnic group should not be favoured above the other.
He similarly urged the President “to return to the drawing board and prosecute his anti-corruption war in the sincere way he started it, before the clear derailing we are now witnessing.”
