For the umpteenth time, Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministries, Enugu, Nigeria (AMEN), Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka, has run into troubled waters, this time over his scathing utterances against the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi.
The cleric, who seemed to have renewed his diatribe on the former Governor of Anambra State, which he unleashed after Obi refused to announce a donation at the 2019 edition of the ministry’s bazaar event in Enugu, lambasted him as a stingy man, vowing that he would not make any headway with his presidential ambition.
The antidote, according to Mbaka, was for Obi to return to the ministry, kneel at the alter and atone for his sins of desecrating it, adding that without doing so, he would remain permanently cursed.
The outburst, has been generating lot of buzz in the media, with a groundswell of condemnations sweeping against the fiery preacher, who seems to have developed a penchant for making controversial political statements.
Apparently, scandalised by the development, the Catholic Diocese of Enugu, where the priest belongs, came out swiftly on Thursday, not only to dissociate itself from the comments, but seriously condemned them.
Bishop Callistus Onaga in a statement signed on his behalf by Very Reverend Father Wilfred Chidi Agubuchie, Chancellor and Secretary, Very Reverend Father Geoffrey Aguigwo, Vicar General and Most Reverend Ernest Anezichukwu Obodo, Auxiliary Bishop of Enugu, said Mbaka spoke for himself.