Catholic Bishops defend transfer, cleric’s loyalists blame PDP for Mbaka transfer

The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria in Abuja on Sunday defended Rv. Fr. Ejike Mbaka’s transfer from the Christ the King Parish, GRA, in Enugu metropolis, to Our Lady Parish, Emene, on the outskirts of Enugu.

Mbaka and Buhari

But Mbaka’s followers on Sunday accused the Peoples Democratic Party of masterminding the transfer of the founder and Spiritual Director of the ministry.

The Breaking their silence about Mbaka’s transfer, the bishops also condemned the protest against the development.

President of the CBCN, Bishop Ignatius Kaigama, who condemned Mbaka’s prophecies, said priests and leaders of the church must avoid “melodramatic displays that resembles modern broad-way shows.”

Kaigama said, “Those priests who tend to compete with so-called trendy pastors to dream dreams, see visions and utter prophecies are reminded that not all dreams, visions and prophecies are revelations from God.

“They are sometimes the product of one’s psychological disposition, brainwaves or even the result of mental fatigue and should not be confused with absolute reality.”

He added, “We need to think positively about the Nigerian project and act in a manner that builds rather than destroys.”

The Assistant Secretary General of the CBCN and Bishop of Ekity Diocese, Felix Ajakaiye, who decried the controversy over Mbaka’s transfer, said, “When I am transferred I am transferred; no sensation should be attached.”

Delivering a sermon during the opening mass, Archbishop of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, said Nigerians were right to be angry at the “criminal corruption” which led to diversion of funds meant for the purchase of arms. He stressed that it was the hope of all Nigerians that such fraudulent acts were now a thing of the past.

“Our gallant troops must never again be left with inadequate resources to carry out the dangerous acts imposed on them on our behalf,” he said.

The cleric, who commended government’s efforts, called for the   investigations and prosecution of accused persons should be transparent.

Onaiyekan reiterated his earlier call for collaboration with the church and religious bodies in an effort to bring about a transformation of minds and action by Nigerians.

Following growing criticism, the Catholic Church explained that the cleric’s transfer was not intended as a punishment but rather a “normal church procedure.”

The church added that Mbaka’s transfer was part of a general redeployment of priests by the Enugu Catholic Diocese, headed by Bishop Callistus Onaga.

But the fiery priest had, while handing over to his successor at the CKC, insinuated that the transfer was in line with a witch-hunt against him, adding that he was going to suffer in the new parish.

However, his followers have accused the PDP and the Ohanaeze Ndigbo of influencing the transfer.

In a statement signed by Kingsley Eze, Sunday Ukam, (Enugu State Adorer), Adedije Wale and (Osun State Adorer), Mbaka’s followers also accused Onaga of pandering to the wishes of Mbaka’s enemies.

They questioned Onaga’s decision to transfer Mbaka when his predecessors allowed him to remain in the parish for about 20 years.

“What Bishop Michael Eneja saw and allowed, Bishop Gbuji protected and watered but Bishop Onaga uprooted in a most barbaric and despondent manner,” they said, referring to the transfer.

The worshippers alleged that   Onaga was working with unnamed PDP chiefs who was unhappy with Mbaka’s role in last year’s presidential election.

Mbaka had predicted President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory, and in a message entitled ‘From Good Luck to Bad Luck’, had urged Nigerians to vote for the All Progressives Congress’ candidate.

The Adoration Ministry members added, “Most Nigerians know that the uncommon silence of Bishop Onaga over Fr. Mbaka’s prophesy of the defeat of the Goodluck Jonathan’s PDP-led government by President Muhammadu Buhari was not really for nothing.

“He was just waiting for the time to carry out the script of the stalwarts of the overthrown party.

“Barely a few weeks before the posting, the voice of a faction of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, a socio-cultural group, was heard barking at Fr. Mbaka to ‘shut up’ over his prophesies.

“And now comes the posting done in such a manner as to really shut Fr. Mbaka up.

“Sources close to Bishop Onaga disclosed to us that the bishop said he transferred Fr. Mbaka out of pressure from Ohanaeze and the PDP.

“The posting is not Holy Ghost-oriented but PDPnized and Ohanaezenized, and any cleric be him a pastor, bishop or cardinal that supported this is an enemy of the Holy Spirit.”

They warned of their readiness to carry out a “religious revolution” over the matter.

They said, “We are ready and determined to carry out a religious revolution in Nigeria if the stage-managed defamation and character assassination sponsored by enemies of the Holy Spirit in the garb of clerics against Fr. Mbaka persists.”

Catholic Bishops defend transfer, cleric’s loyalists blame PDP for Mbaka transfer

Issues in Father Mbaka’s Transfer Lamentations

It is not only surprising that Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka of the then Christ The King Parish, GRA, Enugu, (who is also the spiritual director of Adoration Ministry) reportedly resorted to throwing tantrums and unleashing lamentations over his transfer from the latter parish to Our Lady Parish, Emene, Umuchigbo, Njinike Enugu – his new station – but also it is unnecessary and quite unbecoming of a Catholic priest (and a missionary for that matter who could be called upon at any time, any day for an assignment that demands, among other things, his immediate relocation) to indulge in such a shameful public show of unwarranted displeasure – as was reportedly done by him during his farewell speech to his followers at Christ The King Parish, GRA, Enugu.

Mbaka and Buhari

Though it is natural for Fr. Ejike Mbaka, just like any human being, to be displeased in the circumstance he has found himself, yet carelessly and, in fact, deliberately registering such a displeasure in the glare of the public as a Catholic priest does not only smack of a great disservice to the church and the entire catholic community in Nigerian, but also such unpleasant swansong negates in some way the church’s core principles as embedded in the concept of dogmatism (which for sure Mbaka would have been exposed to them in the course of his priestly training). Therefore, to say the least, Fr. Mbaka’s public lamentations during his farewell speech to his followers at Christ The King Parish, GRA, Enugu reek of heresy.

As it is already a well known fact within the public domain, the idea of a periodic transfer of Catholic priests from their parishes to another is obviously a tradition as old as the church itself. Thus, this fact stands in direct contradiction to Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka’s reported and disgusting insinuation and lamentation that his own transfer portrays a quintessential case of a witch hunt. Unarguably, this mindset is more so outrageous, provocative and totally misplaced when juxtaposed with the fact that the same Fr. Mbaka who apparently takes delight in whipping up unnecessary sentiments in order to curry sympathy from members of the public and thus make his latest missionary movement look like a witch hunt had abini tio left a parish before joining Christ The King Parish, GRA, Enugu. Hence it is no less a sordid and indicting omission on his part to have, consciously or unconsciously, failed to publicly acknowledge and/or tell it to his followers (at least for the sake of records and as an acknowledgement of the magnanimity shown to him by those he erroneously wants to believe are fighting him by orchestrating his transfer) that he did spend no less than twenty (20) years as a parish priest in Christ The King Parish, GRA, Enugu, before now.

Meanwhile, this implicitly long period of tenure elongation for Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka during his stint at Christ The King Parish, GRA, Enugu, is certainly a clear negation of the media reports which posit that the transfer of Catholic priests in Enugu Diocese “is a routine exercise done every six years by the bishop”. Nonetheless, it still boggles one’s mind wherein lies Father Mbaka’s disgusting impression of a witch hunt in this whole transfer saga.

Apparently, given it to him that he is an obedient Catholic priest as he is wont to make people believe, one wonders why Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka had to go the whole hog of publicly accepting his new posting with an obvious intent to show his pain, regret, reservation and, above all, grumbling – simultaneously.

Hear him: “How many trailer loads of cement came here? All the monies I made from my cassette and other private crusades all of them were used to build this church (Christ The King Parish, GRA, Enugu). We cannot   quantify it but let God be glorified”.

Indeed, there is no gainsaying that the foregoing remark is uncalled for. This is basically because it is somewhat unbelievable that such a self-adulating remark could in the very first place be credited to or even be deemed to have emanated from a Catholic priest of repute who definitely has no illusions about the near anonymous nature of services being rendered to the church and the society at large by the individual Catholic clergy, which is akin to the sort of anonymity that obtains in the civil service. This in essence leaves much to be desired from Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka who supposedly knows or ought to know that whatever contributions he makes to the growth and development of the church as well as the promotion of Catholicism are not meant to be eulogized or celebrated to high heavens by himself – but other people.

Moreover, it is very disappointing that Fr. Mbaka who in his various songs and homilies – which abound in the market places and streets across the country – has tended to preach and emphasize the need for the citizenry and Christians alike to acquiesce in the decisions of constituted authorities with equanimity, decorum and meekness, yet here he is apparently living out the very opposite of what preaches as evidenced by his transfer lamentations. Funny enough, it is ironical that the same Fr. Mbaka who wants Biafra agitators to be acquiescent to the dictates of the government of the day could not in fact publicly contain his own petulance over a routine transfer exercise which the church he swore to spend the rest of his life in has a long standing tradition of upholding as it suits the wisdom of its authorities.

Similarly, even bearing in mind (borrowing the exact words of Mbaka) that “it is the will of God, and when the will of God either permissive or however it happens, nobody should question it”, why then must Fr. Mbaka bother himself with a litany of complaints thus: “I know we are going to suffer between now and few months to come, I am going to suffer because I have no place to lay my head; I am going to suffer because I have no place to keep the ministry’s assets; I know I am going to suffer”.

Truth be told, these unnecessary complaints are clearly untypical of a committed Catholic priest. And even granted that by dint of his transfer Rev. Father Mbaka has been moved from living in a duplex to a one room self-contained apartment as it were, does it in any way justify the fuss about his assertion of going to “Golgotha” to suffer? Or, is this transient change in the affairs of a mortal like (me) him worth publicly fussing about while forgetting in the same vein the enormity of the ordeal our Lord Jesus Christ, our great role model, experienced for the salvation of mankind? Or, could it be that the priests of nowadays no longer remember and reflect on the accounts of the lives and times of the likes of St. Augustine, Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta and, more importantly, our own highly revered, canonized and Blessed Michael Cyprian Iwene Tansi? Or, could it be that the same malaise inherent in the contemporary Nigerian dysfunctional system equally affects the calibre of our priests and priesthood candidates, as well?

But be that as it may, it must be clearly stated that while the decision of the Bishop of Enugu Diocese to effect the transfer of Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka remains highly commendable and a right one in the right direction (which has invariably helped to bring to his consciousness the fact that he is still in the service of God within the Catholic order and not in the Pentecostal church or in a sole proprietor capacity), it need not be belaboured that the church authorities still have to keep an eye on him while he performs his duties as a resident priest in his new parish, with a view to ensuring at all times full compliance with the tenets, practices and liturgies of Catholic faith and Catholicism.

Onyiorah Paschal Chiduluemije writes from Abuja via duluemije4justice@yahoo.com (07012130204)

Issues in Father Mbaka’s Transfer Lamentations

I"m going to suffer in my new parish - Rev. Fr. Mbaka

Enugu Catholic priest, and founder, Adoration Ministry, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has said he is going to suffer in his new parish.

Father Mbaka

Mbaka made this statement while handing over to his successor on Saturday.

He said, “I know we are going to suffer, between now and few months to come, I am going to suffer.

“I am going to suffer because I have no place to lay my head; I am  going to suffer because I have no place to keep the (Adoration) Ministry’s assets.

“The Adoration Ministry is passing through suffering right now.

“Even though I have accepted it as the will of God – it is the will of God through suffering – it is a mega suffering.

“But however, the grace of God will carry us all – even though some of you may pray that God should remove this thorn from us, the scripture says ‘His grace is sufficient for us, for it it even in your weakness that the power of God is demonstrated.”

It was gathered that Mbaka would move from a duplex, which served as his residence in the old parish, to just a room in the new posting.

The said room is only equipped with a small toilet and a bathroom, as well as a small table and a bed, it was learnt.

Mbaka was moved from the Christ the King Parish, G.R.A, in Enugu metropolis, which he presided over as parish priest for over 20 years, to Our Lady Parish, in Emene, a suburb of the Coal City.

It was learnt that Mbaka, who was the parish priest-in-charge at the CKC Parish, G.R.A, will serve as an assistant parish priest in the new parish.

Our correspondent learnt that Mbaka’s transfer was part of a general redeployment of priests by Enugu Catholic Diocese, headed by His Lordship, Bishop Calistus Onaga.

It was equally gathered that the diocese routinely redeploys priests every six years.

But Mbaka, and his massive followers, have linked the development to the anger reportedly expressed by the hierarchy of the Catholic Church over his role in the build-up to the 2015 presidential election, when he condemned former President Goodluck Jonathan in a message entitled ‘From Good Luck to Bad Luck’.

In the message, Mbaka prophesied that Muhammadu Buhari would win the election, and urged his followers and other Nigerians to vote for him.

Buhari eventually won the poll.

Following the election, Mbaka has been accused of engaging in partisan politics after he visited Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, and went ahead to allege, in a New Year message, that the President’s opponents were plotting to kill him.

It is widely believed that the leadership of the Catholic Church in Enugu was not comfortable with Mbaka’s activities.

I"m going to suffer in my new parish - Rev. Fr. Mbaka

Mbaka Prophecy: Group threatens to shut down Nigeria if anything happens to Buhari

UMUAHIA—FOLLOWING Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka’s prediction of possible assassination plot against President Muhammadu Buhari, a group, Buhari South-East Youth Movement, BSEYM, has threatened to shut down the country if anything ugly happens to the President.

Mbaka and Buhari

The group advised anyone or group with such evil plan to have a rethink “because such will spell doom for not just the country.”

In a statement in Umuahia, Abia State by its leader, Mr. Nwabueze Onwuneme, the group expressed its support for President Buhari’s anti-corruption war.

It called on anyone with any knowledge of any ploy against the President or the country to immediately divulge such to law enforcement agents.

According to the group, Mbaka’s prediction should not be dismissed with a wave of hands because “corruption really fights back dirty when attacked.”

It called on all well-meaning Nigerians to resist the evil work of “this small group that wants to kill this country,” and which had improvised the masses, and support President Buhari in his effort to sanitize the country.

Mbaka Prophecy: Group threatens to shut down Nigeria if anything happens to Buhari

Why Rev. Father Mbaka messages should be stopped

“But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. 2 Peter 2:1-3”

By Ehi Ekhator

Going by the bible verses above, it’s obvious that a Catholic Priest, Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka of the Adoration Ministry in Enugu State cannot be distant from the warning by Apostle Peter.

Father Mbaka

The self-acclaimed prophet has not seized to amaze the general public since he gained the national attention after prophesying that Jonathan will not win the 2015 general election.

In Nigeria, men of God are highly respected; nobody dares say any ill-words against them as anyone found doing that is referred to as Satan with insults from their apologists.

Due to this respect, pastors take advantages of the people, sending inciting messages, particularly to public office holders during and after election in order to have a share of their national cake.

Before the Presidential election in 2014 between the former President, Goodluck Jonathan and a retired General, Muhammadu Buhari, the wife of the former President Dame Patience with the help of the Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, visited the Rev. Father Mbaka in his Enugu parish. She was welcomed, the congregation was filled to the beam, and the Holy Spirit moved the man of God to deliver prophesy concerning the election.

Mbaka attacked those who said Jonathan had not done well, so assured him through his wife that God had given him victory for the second term.

He admonished those attacking the President for his inability to rescue the more than 200 Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram, adding that Jonathan was not a kidnapper.

“We are not stopping, because we want him to go back. Even if you don’t come here, we keep praying for him,” the priest said, addressing the president directly.

“Because the first one we did you were not here. We are not sycophantic. Because you and your husband have done well, in spite of the distractions.”

Mbaka said “Campaigners have no reason asking the president to return the girls home since Mr. Jonathan was not keeping them.”

“Jonathan is not a kidnapper,” he added.

He told the First Lady to “go with the consolation of the Holy Spirit. The anointing of the Lord says God will make your family great.”

So what happened after?

Before the wife of the President departed, Mbaka requested for her direct mobile number so he could give her messages from God, but instead, Mrs Jonathan asked another pastor with her to give his mobile.

The self-acclaimed prophet claimed that he tried the number several times but couldn’t get through but an aide to the pastor answered the call.

“When she came here, I told her to give me her number so that I could give her messages, but thrice she refused. It was later she told one of the pastors with her to give me his number. So, before that message (that Jonathan cannot win) , I had called the number for two weeks but it was always the Personal Assistant to the pastor that picked the calls.”

Possibly out of disappointment of being slighted, Mbaka on his 2015 new year message, made a u-turn on a message he claimed he had received from God. This time, he told Nigerians that Jonathan’s bird could not fly, and also attributed the reason of his changed message to what the masses want.

Mbaka said “I recently anointed Mrs. Patience Jonathan as the next First Lady in 2015, when the First Lady and the Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu worshipped at the Adoration Ministry, where the First Lady admitted that she experienced ‘a spiritual rebirth.’

“That day, I released some birds that would go and fight for Jonathan. But today I state that Jonathan is going nowhere as far as next year’s election is concerned. One of the birds, which I released during Mrs. Jonathan’s visit, has refused to fly.

“All the other birds I released flew away but the healthiest of them, which was Jonathan’s bird, could not fly. I tried to make it fly but it could not fly,” he said.

In his attempt to justify the claim above, Mbaka added “when Jonathan was aspiring to become Nigeria’s President, he was happy like other Nigerians but the bad luck which millions of the citizens had faced since he came into office was quite disturbing; hence the masses want a change.”

Take note of the phrase “the masses want a change” and Patience Jonathan refusal to give him her direct mobile number, his frustration to call have access to Aso Rock.

Out of fear and the backlash that ensued his change of support, Mbaka raised an alarm that his life was threatened. He claimed that Jonathan had sent his men to go after his life because he refused to support him. He also claimed that his bank accounts were frozen.

Daring the alleged threat, Mbaka declared: “Tell them I am not afraid of them. I have said what I was asked to say. The only word I have for them is Isaiah 54:15,17: “Surely they shall gather, but because the gathering is not of God they shall scatter. No weapon fashioned against me shall prosper.”

“They said Buhari gave me money, but I have never met with Buhari. I don’t know him in person. I only delivered the message I was given and I stand by that message because the future of this country is bleak with Jonathan on the saddle.”

In December 18, 2016 Mbaka mission was finally accomplished. He was received by President Buhari in Aso Rock.

Receiving the priest, Buhari welcomed him and expressed gratitude over the role he played during the last election.

Buhari said “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,”

The president added. “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.”

As expected, Mbaka 2016 New Year message put Nigerians and the President at their toes. Mbaka for the second time raised an assassination alarm, but this time, about the President.

He claimed that some forces are planning to assassinate Buhari over his stand on corruption.

The Adoration Priest said “Many people are planning to kill Buhari; there are many plans on how to eliminate his life so that corruption will continue; so that embezzlement will continue. But I speak to Buhari that God who put you there will protect you; be firm, remain resolute, don’t be intimidated; President Buhari God and his people are behind you, you are the answer to the prayer of His people.”

Without forgetting to send Jonathan’s share of the lash, the Priest claimed that Jonathan killed Nigeria and “only handed over the skeleton to Buhari’s government.”

It is on record that the priest is used to making politically motivated speeches. It could be recalled that months back, Mbaka attacked the credibility of Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha.

He accused the governor of giving N50 million dud cheque to the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, His Grace, Dr. J. V Obinna

The Catholic Priest also spread the rumour that former Governor Ikedi Ohakim had flogged a Catholic priest.

In the past, clergymen and traditional rulers were served as semi-gods and were expected to play neutral in political related issues and other controversial engagements for the purpose of their revered role in society which make them more adored and respected.

 

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Why Rev. Father Mbaka messages should be stopped

Corruption: There’re plans to assassinate Buhari – Fr. Mbaka

Fiery Enugu Catholic priest, and founder, Adoration Ministry, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, in a New Year sermon on Friday said there are plans by unnamed people to assassinate President Muhammadu Buhari.

Father Mbaka

He said many people are plotting to kill the President because of his campaign against corruption.

He said, “I am not a sycophant, but I want to tell you that so far God is happy and he who God has blessed none can curse.

“Many people are planning to kill Buhari – there are many plans on how to eliminate his life so that corruption will continue, so that embezzlement will continue.

“But I speak to Buhari that God who put you there will protect you; be firm, remain resolute, don’t be intimidated.”

He described Buhari as the answer to the prayers of Nigerians.

“President Buhari, God and his people are behind you, you are the answer to the prayer of His people.

“Nigeria, as we speak now, economically, security wise is in the intensive care unit. If the oxygen is removed, Nigeria will die.

“People of God prayed, from here and there and God gave us Buhari. God has told us that Buhari is prayer answered.

“President Buhari is an answered prayer; whether you hate him or like him, Buhari is prayer answered.

“The Bishops of Nigeria, the Catholic bishops prayed against bribery and corruption and this President came with a charter that has to do with war against corruption,” he said.

Mbaka once again attacked the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

The cleric had attacked the former president in a sermon entitled ‘From good luck to bad luck’, just before the presidential election.

He accused the former president of leaving behind the ‘carcass’ of Nigeria for Buhari.

He said, “My beloved Nigerians, those who led us from last year downwards, they have killed this country.

“None of them is qualified to stay in this country by now, both the President, the senators, the representatives, the chairmen of local governments, the governors, they are wicked.

“It doesn’t matter the man of God they worship with, I tell you, before God and man, all of them are wicked.

“They hate this country, they succeeded in removing the liver, kidney and cardio vascular system of this country and handed over to President Buhari, shambles, skeletal organs of this country; a nation that is in comatose.”

The cleric stressed that no part of the country is marginalised, including the South-East.

“Many have died because of a few people, and these same people want to use you to engineer crisis that Igbo are marginalised, nobody is marginalised.

“The Yoruba are not marginalised; the Hausa are not marginalised, Efik people are not marginalised.

“In the present political scenario, the Igbo have the position of Minister of External Affairs in the person of Onyeama; the Igbo people have the position of Science and Technology Minister in the person of Ogbonnaya Onu.”

Corruption: There’re plans to assassinate Buhari – Fr. Mbaka

Rev Fr. Mbaka says pro Biafra protests ‘evil’

Enugu – A Catholic Priest in Enugu, Rev Fr. Ejike Mbaka has condemned the recent agitation and protests for Biafra nation describing the action as `evil.’

Father Mbaka

Mbaka made the condemnation in Enugu on Saturday in a sermon at his weekly Adoration Ministry.

The cleric urged youths in the South East and South-South to go back to their business as the protest could lead to their death.

“Locking up your shops and disrupting economic activities will not add any naira to your pocket, whatever grievance you have could be resolved through dialogue,’’ the cleric said.

He lambasted those leaders that were behind the agitation and protests, saying that they should use their children for the struggle.

Mbaka commended President Muhammadu Buhari for appointing ministers from the zone and assigning them with good portfolios.

“President Buhari’s action has proven that the South East has not been marginalized. I would have reacted if no minister emerged from the zone,’’ he said.

He said that the five states in the zone had minister each as prescribed by the Nigerian constitution as well as other key security and protocol officers that serves under president and his wife.

The reverend father attributed the recent free health screening initiative by the Wife of the president, Mrs Aisha Buhari, in Enugu to her love for the people of the region.

He blamed the Igbo leaders for not living up to the expectation of the people in the area, adding that past governors, National Assembly members failed woefully in discharging their mandates.

“President Buhari is not the cause of poor roads, unemployment and other decay infrastructures in the south east, we should blame our leaders.

“Most of the roads had been awarded but our leaders squandered the fund, even the university teaching hospital in Enugu is a no-go-area and our leaders are not concerned about it,” he said.

Mbaka called on the new Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, to use his office to employ youths in the zone, adding that it would stop what he called another Boko Haram in the south east if not curtailed.

He praised Buhari’s war against corruption, saying it had enthroned due process and sanity in governance.

The cleric, however, urged Nigerians to be patient with the president as he had good plans for the country.

Rev Fr. Mbaka says pro Biafra protests ‘evil’

Don"t repeat Jonathan"s mistake - Mbaka tells Buhari

Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka of the Adoration Ministry, Enugu, has congratulated General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) on his victory in the March 28 Presidential election.

Mbaka, whose New Year Message, “From Goodluck to Badluck,” became a major talking point during the campaigns for the election, said Buhari’s emergence was a divine victory for all Nigerians.

Speaking through his spokesman, Maximus Ugwuoke, Mbaka also noted that Buhari’s victory was a fulfillment of his prophecy in the New Year Message.

However, he urged the President-Elect to seek divine wisdom before appointing people who will work with him.

According to him, President Goodluck Jonathan’s biggest problem was that he surrounded himself with the “wrong people.”

Mbaka advised Buhari to avoid making the same mistake.

The cleric’s spokesman said, “It is with vindictive joy and glory to God that the Adoration Ministry, the nation and indeed the world saw the fulfillment of Fr. Mbaka’s New Year prophesy of change with the miraculous, victorious emergence of General Muhammed Buhari at the March 28th polls as the President-elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“We wish to restate that before President Goodluck became the President of this country, Fr. Mbaka prophesied it in his message titled ‘Okolo.’

“Today again, Buhari’s victory, among other lessons it portends to Nigerians, has once more confirmed to all and sundry that Fr. Mbaka is indeed a true Prophet of God and that his New Year message was indeed from the Oracle of the Holy Spirit as he declared.

“The ministry with magnanimous heart holds no grudges against anyone who attacked it in one way or the other at the rage of the controversies surrounding  Fr. Mbaka’s message and view their actions as being orchestrated by their misconstruing of Fr. Mbaka’s prophetic calling.

“The Ministry joins the rest of Nigerians to congratulate Buhari as God’s chosen instrument of change to tackle the myriads of problems facing Nigeria and pray God to endow him with the wisdom to go about this onerous task.

“We see Buhari’s victory as divine victory to all Nigerians irrespective of our religious and ethnic divide.”

Urging Buhari to seek divine wisdom before choosing the people he would work with, he said, “The prayer of Fr. Mbaka is that God will give Buhari wisdom not to surround himself with wrong people – that was the major problem Jonathan’s administration faced.

“Fr. Mbaka has advocated that Nigerians should be patient with Buhari because the holes dug in the country are too much – holes of corruption, holes of unemployment, among others.”

The cleric said he will be the first to condemn Buhari if he fails to live up to expectations.

Don"t repeat Jonathan"s mistake - Mbaka tells Buhari

Video: Jonathan, patience have hired killers to assassinate me - Father Mbaka alleges

By Ehi Ekhator, Naija Center News

Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has raised an alarm over an alleged plan by the wife of the President, Patience Jonathan to assassinate him concerning his earlier opposition to Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election

Mbaka had earlier criticized President Jonathan as a weak President, advised that he stepped down and go out the way he came in. referring to the President, he told his congregation that Good luck had turned to bad luck for Nigerians.

Among the things the father mentioned against the incumbent were joblessness, insecurity, power and above all, corruption.

Addressing his congregation in Enugu over the weekend, Mbaka said Jonathan and his wife were not going to kill him themselves but send jobless Nigerians he is defending.

The Rev. Father denied taking money from any politicians. It could be recalled that during his earlier attack on the President, Mbaka had endorsed General Muhammadu Buhari, the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress.

The Rev. Father said “Do they think that killing Rev. Mbaka will make Jonathan and his wife win the election? Is Mbaka their problem? And the other Priest asked the question that touched me, all these while Father Mbaka has been supporting Jonathan and his wife, did Buhari and his party make any statement or threaten him over six years?

After all, I sent the letter about this to somewhere, but I want to send this message to the atmosphere, let it now be known to the whole world that President Jonathan and Patience are planning to assassinate Father. Mbaka. It is a known secret, so however they are planning it, I don’t know, whoever they want to use, I don’t know. They will not come themselves to do it, they will use these unemployed people, the same people I am speaking for. I don’t know why people are no longer afraid of God, and the other priest said maybe because other priest in the country joining them to threaten Father Mbaka to threaten father Mbaka unto sanction because he speaks the ill of the government, after all why should Jonathan’s name be mentioned.”

Father Mbaka likened himself to Moses in the bible. He said “ I am just trying to warn any Pharaoh that is trying to kill Moses, remember what happened in the Exodus chapter 12, after the Passover, the family of Pharaoh cried and the remnant of the tears got a conclusion in Exodus 14-78 in the middle of the red sea. Let them leave father Mbaka alone.”

Father Mbaka admitted that money was sent to him from the President’s wife through the Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, which he publicly said he rejected.

He said “The so called money they are boasting that they gave to Father Mbaka, I have said it severally on this alter, put my hand. It is true if it is true because Ekweremadu came with one little bag or pulse, containing some money he said Mrs. President gave to you and the money was rejected, and it is in Ekweremadu’s house. I am not holding one kobo of Patience Goodluck’s money. As the heaven lives, if she tries any nonsense, the battle will be between him and God himself.

“They should come to their senses that everybody cannot be bought with money, but the glory of God. God has been taken care of me, it is not this time around that I will begin to yield to the weep and caprices of political hurt and vultures, no.

“Let them know that the news is everywhere, it is now a public information that President Goodluck and Patience have sent assassins. It is the information I have got, information rule the world. Have I gotten the opportunity, I should have met that man (the man who gave him the threat information), I am monitoring, I have sent people to look for him.”

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Father Mbaka Saga: I’ll close Adoration Ground if…. —Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie

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•’Mixing religion with politics is dangerous’

By Sam Eyoboka & Olayinka Latona

Retired Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie, explains why the clergy should not mix religion with politics. He speaks against the backdrop of the statement by the Enugu-based Catholic priest and founder of Adoration Ground, Father Ejike Mbaka, that members of his congregation should reject President Goodluck Jonathan in the general elections.

How do you see the statement credited to Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka?

Cardinal Okogie

Any serious priest will not speak the way he spoke. I am not saying that he is not serious. I will not agree with the things he said. According to what I read in the newspapers, a few weeks earlier, the First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, visited his Adoration Ground in Enugu and he prayed for her. At that occasion, he was said to have lambasted the opposition party, APC, and now to turn around overnight and start lambasting President Goodluck Jonathan shows that there is something wrong somewhere.

Personally, I felt bad because it is not the place of a priest to go to that extent. He can have his personal opinion, but to go to the extent that he went is abnormal. I want you to know that he wasn’t speaking for the church. He said he was moved by the spirit, and I wonder what kind of spirit was that.

He said he was under the inspiration of the spirit. If he was under the inspiration of the spirit, I wonder if the spirit is that of God. I don’t think the spirit he’s referring to is the spirit of God. He must have been under the influence of another spirit. He must have been listening to a wrong spirit.

Is the statement not embarrassing to the Catholic Church as a whole?

Indeed, it is. But I must say to you that he was not speaking on behalf of the church. No! No!! No!!! Anybody with such opinion is in error. The man cannot hold brief for the church. Pardon me, but how can I say you are bloody fool and anybody takes that to mean that all journalists are bloody fools. It’s very funny.

In a situation such as this, what does the Catholic Church do?

Well, the Catholic Church is structured in such a way that there are dioceses where each priest belongs. This particular priest happens to come from Enugu Diocese, so it is left for the bishop in charge of that diocese to discipline him. If the priest fails to obey the discipline, then the bishop is obligated to report the mother to the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN.

You may have heard the Bishop of Abuja Diocese, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, who said that if the priest were to be in his diocese, he would discipline him straight. But he is not in his diocese. The best anyone of us can do is just to advise him that he had gone too far and he is free to take our advice and he may not. God gave every one of us a free will and we are at liberty to use the freewill as we choose.

What kind of sanction can be given to such a priest?

It depends on his bishop. You cannot dictate for his bishop. Don’t forget that this same man was at loggerheads with a former governor of Enugu State, Chimaroke Nnamanni, and it was the same Adoration Ground in Enugu. If I have my way, we should close that place because a lot of things have been happening there that are out of tune. I think Gov. Peter Obi also went there for prayers at one point. If I have my way, I won’t go there for anything….

Your advice for politicians who are currently jostling for votes….

One of them came out publicly recently to say that if you are a politician and you cannot tell a lie…how then that anyone wants to go into politics? If they can openly say such a thing, it means they have been deceiving the people all this while. So, I don’t really know. Any good politician must, first and foremost, must have the fear of God in him. A responsible politician, irrespective of the office you are vying for—because they say whatever has a beginning must have an end—must begin by developing the fear of God in him because by and by your tenure will eventually come to an end.

It’s because of greed that most of them are clamouring for second or more terms. Any politician that has finished his first term and is asking for a second term, there is something wrong with him. If we look at it critically, after four years what is he clamouring for a second term for? I cannot understand Nigerians. Some of us are damn greedy. They don’t have the fear and respect for the down trodden.

Now they are up and about the whole place…they can even lick your boot now because they are canvassing for votes, but as soon as they get the votes they begin to show you pepper. They don’t regard the poor citizens that are out there; forgetting that someday and one day they may return to the status quo.

Whatever has a beginning must have an end. This is the time you get them talking but they won’t look at their manifestoes, but because they want to get to power they are going to everybody. Some of them have come to me here and I told them off: one of the first thing you’ve got to do is get religion off your mind because it is like putting petrol in a fire. You don’t mix politics with religion and some people came to me, saying, ‘Look at the situation in Lagos, what are we going to do?’ What are you going to do? Are they your God? Do they own the nation? The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. Any clergyman that mixes religion with politics is finished including their church because they will not be spared.

Politicians are taking their campaigns to churches. Is it a healthy development?

It is not! They should keep religion out of politics. Don’t forget each person has his or her own mind. During harvest, you have the priest and the assistant priest and you go out to invite another priest to preach, that will affect what I am going give, because I have already made up my mind on what I am going to give. They come to church to canvas for votes.

It should not be allowed by anybody. I don’t really know what to do because this election, hmm hmm hmm, I am afraid. Imagine their utterances! Look at what Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) said about Shariah in 2011, that is what they are harping on now in 2015. Why? When did you hear about Shariah last? This kind of thing is annoying. Look at the recent campaign launch that produced over N21 billion. Where did they get the money from when people are hungry? No water. No electricity. No roads. I just wonder what kind of government we have in this country. These are all corrupt persons and they will want me to cast their vote for them.

 

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PDP: It Is Unacceptable To Mock Rev. Fr. Mbaka.

Olisa Metuh, the national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has described Ejike Mbaka, founder of the Adoration Ministry Enugu (AMEN), as “a recognised symbol of God’s authority” who should not be mocked for criticising the president.

Olisah Metuh

Mbaka has recently been in the news for asking President Goodluck Jonathan to step down for Muhammadu Buhari in next month’s presidential election.

In his 2015 inaugural sermon, the most popular priest in the south-east, criticised Jonathan severely, asking his congregation to vote for Buhari.

The video, which was posted on Youtube, has since gone viral.

A similar video, produced earlier in November during, also surfaced, showing that Mbaka earlier defended Jonathan against series of public criticism.

Writing on the Facebook wall of PDP on Sunday, Metuh cautioned those who feel bitter over the message of the charismatic preacher to avoid hurling insults at him.

“I want to appeal to some of these online support persons and/or groups to immediately stop and cease all attacks on Rev.Fr. Mbaka,” he said.

“If you are truly a child of God, please do know that a mockery of a recognised symbol of God’s authority is unacceptable even where we totally disagree with his message.

“The south east being a strong catholic and Christian stronghold will not condone a campaign against a priest.

“I truly believe that President Goodluck Jonathan has made landmark achievements amidst the distraction of a well-oiled terrorist campaign. Indeed I appreciate a lot of people who at the expense of their time and resources have chosen to support Mr President and our party in the media.

“If you love President Goodluck Jonathan and you support PDP to win this election please do stay with, and on the message.

“A lot of Nigerians will never believe that our party and our government (to the best of my knowledge) do not fund media support services. What we do have are volunteers who genuinely support us despite our perceived imperfections.”

Although Metuh admitted that the ruling party had some shortcomings, he maintained that its policies were superior to those of the opposition.

“We have our imperfections but we are a lot better than this present alternative,” he wrote.

“Change to uncoordinated and chaotic movements never worked in Libya, Iraq, Egypt and a host of other countries.

“Our opponents should focus on challenging our programmes and policies. For now, they are fully engaged in insults, diatribes, propaganda and feeding on sentiments and emotions only. Let Nigerians freely choose.”

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Go out the way you came in - Enugu cleric blasts Jonathan

By Ehi Ekhator, Naija Center News

A catholic Priest, and founder of Adoration Ministries Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has urged Nigerians to vote out President good luck Jonathan in 2015 as his good luck has turned to bad luck for Nigerians.

He appealed to Jonathan to honorably resign and go out the way he came in since he could no longer render the dividend of democracy.

He urged his followers who were in thousands to support the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd) who he said fought corruption and constructed many roads when he was the military Head of State.

Mbaka who heads the popular Catholic Adoration Centre in Enugu disclosed this in  new sermon titled “From Goodluck to Bad luck”

Mbaka said Nigerians were not asking for a new road but to repair even the federal road constructed by Buhari and Babangida in the past.

Mbaka subsequently knelt down in front of the altar, cried and asked God to give Nigeria a good leader and not Jonathan. He used the opportunity to beg Nigerians to vote wisely in the forthcoming elections.

He said, “I love President Goodluck Jonathan and I used to be his ardent fan, but I want good for my people and that’s why I want Nigerians to vote out Goodluck Jonathan and vote General Muhammad Buhari. I don’t care if Buhari is a Muslim and from the North; all I care about is that Buhari can save Nigeria.”

He urged the Federal Government to account for the missing $20bn and stop insurgency in the country.

Mbaka maintained that Buhari could not Islamise Nigeria as being rumoured in some circles.

He said he had never met the APC candidate but urged Nigerians not to forget that Buhari fought corruption to a standstill during his administration between December 1983 and August 1985.

He said ” Where are we going, what’s the faith of this country? Shall we continue to experience the bad luck? We need change. As i am speaking with you, most of the civil servants did not celebrate their Christmas. The Christmas season that should be a goodluck season became a bad luck time.

He called on all men of God in the country to leave whatever they are doing and speak for the future of the children.

He said ” Tears fill my eyes watching our youngmen, our graduates hopelessly roaming along the street. What’s the meaning of kidnapping? Kidnapping is a grandson of unemployment, Boko Haram is grade grand child of the same unemployment, mass looting, and poor governance.

I don’t say that Goodluck is a bad man, he is a good man, but he cannot rule Nigeria. At this time right now, from the oracle of the holy spirit, Jonathan should quietly resign honorably and let Nigeria be. The destiny of Nigeria is greater than Goodluck Jonathan. The Goodluck in Jonathan has become a badluck to Nigerians, whatever brought him in should send him back and let Nigeria be.”

NAIJA CENTER NEWS could be recalled that the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu had taken Jonathan’s wife, Dame Patience to Mbaka where the cleric publicly endorsed the President’s re-election.

Mbaka had called on Igbo people while receiving the First Lady, Dame Patience to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 general election.

He warned those who were speaking ill of the president to desist or would meet their downfall, as greatness comes only from God.

The man of God assured the First lady not to worry about the All Progressives Congress party as it poses no threat on the relection of her husband, adding that Enugu people view the APC as Boko Haram

His words “I want to ask those saying that Jonathan must bring back the Chibok girls, is Jonathan holding the Chibok gsirls? When you, First Lady, went to Borno, you said there is God oh!

“Jonathan is not a kidnapper. We are giving you our support. You have done a lot for this country. You have done it with distractions. We wonder what you will do without distractions. We know what you will do. Adoration will support you and your husband.”

Mbaka assured Dame Patience of his support, adding that members of his congregation would vote President Jonathan in 2015.

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