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  • Enugu APC backs Mbaka over comment on Jonathan’s govt

    Enugu APC backs Mbaka over comment on Jonathan’s govt

    The Enugu State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has backed Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka’s recent stand on the suffering of the masses.

    In a message, the fiery cleric had criticised former President Goodluck Jonathan for running down the nation’s economy and inflicting suffering on Nigerians.

    He said: “It is not easy everywhere. Hunger is everywhere. Hunger is in the atmosphere. There is a sword moving about in the country. People are dying like flies. The sword of hunger is eating the land.

    “The past Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government was a grasshopper and a locust to Nigeria. The past government was a disaster to the land of Nigeria. The past government was cancer to this country. There is no need to cover its incalculable and iniquitous mess.”

    In a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Mrs. Kate Ofor, the Enugu State APC reassured Nigerians that President Muhammadu Buhari would restore the country to the path of progress.

    The statement reads: “Let us once more salute Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka, the crusader of the masses, liberation ideologue and Head of Adoration Ministry, Catholic Church of Enugu State, for speaking truth to power, as evidenced by his unrelenting attack on those in power and his memorable prediction of President Buhari’s victory on January 1, 2015.

    “We wish to reassure Fr. Mbaka that President Buhari will not, in the fullness of time, disappoint Nigerians or fail to fix our dilapidated social and physical infrastructure. Never! Buhari is devotedly committed to pull Nigerians out of poverty, hunger and squalor.

    “For us, yesterday …is the architecture of today. Nobody can wish yesterday away. Therefore, Fr Mbaka is correct in stating that the past regimes sowed the whirlwind we are regrettably reaping today. If the $16 billion expended on power supply was prudently expended; if the three Greenfield refineries awarded on May 13, 2010 were not dead and fund decayed in the sand; if the $8.3 billion spent on the old gauge Lagos-Kano railway were for standard gauge; if the Enugu-Onitsha, Enugu-Port Harcourt, Second Niger Bridge the and other federal roads’ funds budgeted were not eaten by locust; if the funds meant for Enugu Coal were nor embezzled and if the billions budgeted for our schools and hospitals did not grow wings, hunger could not have been in the land; unemployment could have been drastically reduced and our prosperity could have been guaranteed.

    “For the avoidance of doubt, we in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State and, by extension Nigeria, feel the pains and pangs of hunger, feel the gruesome hardship and abject poverty ravaging the land. We are not immune to hunger nor the gross unemployment dislocating our youths.

    “To be candid, in our closed-door meeting with Mr President, he disclosed that he was aware, concerned and worried about the sordid economic situation. This is why he is waging strident war against corruption. His solution is to effectively and prudently implement the 2016 and subsequent budgets to fix the decayed infrastructure.

    “On the issue of being slow, Mr President pointed out that the 1999 Constitution, the Procurement Act and other extant laws make it impossible for any official to expend funds not appropriated by the National Assembly. Otherwise, he could have dipped his hand into the trillions budgeted and hit the ground running.

    “It is pertinent to inform as well that Mr President is embarking on economic diplomacy, travelling the length and breadth of the globe, utilising his huge goodwill to attract foreign investors to fulfil the solemn pledge he made to the good people of Nigeria.

    “It is common knowledge that destruction is very easy and reconstruction very difficult. This is the ordeal Mr President is facing in fixing Nigeria.

    “Accordingly, we wish to once more reassure Fr Mbaka, and indeed all Nigerians, that in the fullness of time nobody will regret ever voting for President Buhari. All he needs are prayers patience and support.”

     

  • Jonathan responsible for hunger, hardship –Mbaka

    Jonathan responsible for hunger, hardship –Mbaka

    • PDP rule disastrous, cancerous •Denies attacking Buhari

    Controversial Enugu Catholic priest, Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka, hit out afresh yesterday  at  former President Goodluck Jonathan and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for running the economy aground.

    He said the party brought upon the country and the citizens the current hunger and hardship in the land.

    Mbaka who was clarifying his recent statement ‘Bless and Be Blessed’ said it was largely misunderstood to mean that he attacked or blamed President Muhammadu Buhari for the economic crisis.

    He said he merely drew the president’s attention to the level of suffering in the country and tried to suggest the way out.

    Maximus Ike Ugwoke, spokesman for Fr. Mbaka, in a statement entitled “FR MBAKA’S ASSERTION ‘THERE IS HUNGER IN NIGERIA’, NOT AN ATTACK ON PRESIDENT BUHARI” quoted Mbaka as saying that  the PDP, rather than apologise to Nigerians for its alleged misrule, has launched an “iniquitous planning about 2019 election for them to continue from where they stopped.”

    “They should not be foolhardy,” he said.

    “All these years of Jonathan, nothing happened in Niger-Delta specifically to be recorded in the annals of history. What a shame! What an embarrassment!

    “The place where the oil has been coming from remained underdeveloped under a man from the same soil. If you go to Niger Delta today you will cry. But what worries me is that our people are good in shifting blames.”

    Continuing, Mbaka said: “There is  a  sword that is moving about in the country. People are dying like flies. The sword of hunger is eating the land. And as I have told you this is just the beginning. If anybody is telling you it is going to be well very soon that person is deceiving you. “This is because many of us were among those that were alive during the years of the past government. The past PDP government was a grasshopper and locust to Nigerians.

    “The past government was a disaster to the land of Nigeria; the past government was cancer to this country. There is no need trying to cover their incalculable and iniquitous mess. If you don’t feel it now, you will feel it later.

    “The impact of their horrific mess is yet to be felt. It was a regime where hooliganism became a political slogan; where looting became the order of the day; where the neglect of youths became a pattern of administration. The result is what we are passing through now. Hunger is everywhere; the hunger was created before this new government came in. Buhari is not the maker of the hunger.”

    According to the cleric, “The hunger was created during the Jonathan PDP administration but Buhari should abate the long procrastination, bureaucracy and slow methods in tackling it.

    “Understand it very well. People will know the truth and the truth will set us free. Buhari is just an agent of change. The money in our treasury was nothing to write home about before this new regime came. The country was in an embarrassing mess.

    “Apart from the petroleum that we sell and get money, what other means of foreign exchange do we have? The foundation of the Nigerian economy is oil which has now collapsed and the foundation once destroyed what will the just man do? Psalm 11:3. The past administration did not prepare this administration for this season. That is why the sword has risen. Many will die by this sword but there will be survivors.

    “Somebody entered your kitchen carried your pot of soup, entered your store and farm, raked everything in the store and farm and ran away. And another person enters the kitchen where there is no pot at all and you want the person to turn the kitchen into a magical kitchen that will produce a magical pot and a magical soup, which soup?”

    He added, “I am just telling President Buhari that people are hungry because he cannot not come to the street like me and notice people’s feelings. But Buhari is not the author of the hunger. The past government planted the tree of hunger and they want to come back to water it.

    “If it is in a developed country by now from the Senators to the Reps, to the governors, all who participated in the last administration should have resigned with apologies to our youths; otherwise the youths one day will begin to stone them.

    “They will soon confuse you that present governments don’t want to feed you, feed you with what? It will surprise the whole Nigerians to know that even after Buhari was a petroleum minister and a military president of the country, he had no oil bloc. Is it not a shock? Don’t you hear the quantum of money that is being recovered from one person?  Buhari just came as a redeemer. I don’t know if the people of this country are hypnotized.

    “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 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 expecting him to cover the holes with what?”

    Ugwoke said that contrary to media reports that Fr. Mbaka attacked Buhari, he “merely restated the obvious sufferings that Nigerians are facing (which even the president himself had at points acknowledged and sued for patience and perseverance) and advised the president on the ways to tackle it i.e. by engaging economic gurus and listening to good advisers.”

    He added:”We wonder which portion of the message could be viewed as ‘an attack’ or ‘bombing’ of Mr. President as twisted in the media.

    “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 in Nigeria and that is why it is devoid of hypocrisy.

    “It is obvious that those who are arm-twisting the said message of the cleric to Mr. President as an attack on Mr. President are those who want the president 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 scores him above average in just few months of his administration.”

    Mbaka hailed  Buhari as a gallant warrior and urged him to continue his battle against corruption and insurgency, pointing out that but for his onslaught  against Boko Haram, many Nigerians  would  have stopped going to church and mosques by now.

    “Buhari is not the cause of corruption and insurgency yet he is fighting them frontally.”

    He enjoined him to also square up to hunger to save many Nigerians from dying hopelessly.

  • Mbaka alleges plot to cause row between him, Buhari

    Mbaka alleges plot to cause row between him, Buhari

    Enugu Catholic priest, Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has said some people are planning to cause disaffection between him and the Presidency.

    Mbaka said contrary to earlier reports that he made negative predictions about the President’s ill health, he merely alluded to doctors’ alleged reports.

    The fiery cleric said Nigerian doctors had expressed fears over the chances of President Muhammadu Buhari recovering from his illness.

    But he said he had prayed against it.

    The priest, who is in charge of the Adoration Ministry in Enugu, spoke through his media aide, Ike Maximus Ugwuoke.

    The statement said: “Our attention has been drawn to a report in a section of the media, alleging that Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, the Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry in Enugu, Nigeria, said President Muhammadu Buhari had slim chances of surviving from his ill-health.

    “The truth is that there were media reports, making fuss about Mr President’s health and insinuating Mr President’s slim chances of recovering from his ill-health, published immediately the President went on vacation.

    “Fr Mbaka, who was referring to the media report during his prayers for the sick in the ministry, prayed with the worshippers for Mr President’s healing and health after which there were lots of testimonies from the sick that were healed of blindness, elephantiasis, deafness, cancer, tumour and all other diverse healings at the end of the prayer session.”

    The statement also quoted Mbaka as saying: “They say the sickness is E.N.T (Ear, Nose and Throat). When it affects the ear, it affects the nose and affects the neck. We pray for our President and anyone who is suffering from such a dangerous disease.

    “We lift our healing hands for divine healing upon our President. Wherever he is, may he be healed in Jesus name!

    “The doctors in Nigeria are nursing the fear that he may not survive, but we have a healing God. His name is Specialist in Impossibilities.”

    It noted that some persons were nosing around in the affairs of the ministry with a view to causing unnecessary rift between it and the Presidency.

    The statement said: “While we enjoin all patriotic citizens of this country to continue to pray for the good of the nation and her leaders, we reiterate our call on the meddlesome interlopers, who busy themselves with arm-twisting issues arising from the ministry for whatever ends, to desist from their wild goose chase, have a rethink and rather partake in the blessings imminent in spreading the good news of signs, wonders and miracles of God in the ministry.”

  • Mbaka’s transfer fuss

    Recent transfer of controversial priest of the Catholic Church, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka to another parish should ordinarily have passed as a routine exercise. Bishops, from whom Catholic priests take orders, do regular posting of priests depending on the needs of their respective dioceses.

    Sometimes, priests are changed at quick intervals depending on the discretion of their superiors. Instances abound where priests have been deployed to new parishes or sent for further studies even before they have hardly settled down in their new places of work. That has been the pattern.

    But the posting of Fr. Mbaka from Christ the King parish, Enugu where he had established a flourishing ministry for over 15 years to nearby Our Lady’s parish, Emene seemed to have turned to something else. Not only have motives been imputed into the posting, the authority of the Catholic Church has been questioned by quarters that should ordinarily, not have any business with how it runs its domestic affairs.

    Mbaka did not help matters by the way he reacted to his posting. Not only was he overtly emotional, he gave the impression that he was being punished for whatever reasons. And that largely accounted for the controversy that enveloped his transfer. For the fiery priest who is not new to controversy, the transfer was ‘a calculated move to make him suffer’.

    He said, “I know I will suffer within now and a few months to come. I am going to suffer and suffer. I know that I am going to suffer because I have no place to put my head. I am going to suffer because I have no place to keep the Adoration Ministry’s assets”. These lamentations, signposting helplessness, have tended to convey the impression that there was something punitive in the transfer and that transfer of priests is not a routine thing within the Catholic Church.

    Apparently taking a cue from Mbaka’s emotional outburst, the South-east spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu faulted the transfer, attributing it as punishment for his prophesy during the last elections that Buhari was going to win, which has come true. Not only did he attribute the transfer to external influences that brought pressure to bear on the bishop, he questioned the authority of the Catholic Church in the transfer which he curiously claimed will put Mbaka’s life and that of his flock at risk.

    “We do not wholly accept a situation where the church allows external forces to influence transfers as the Mbaka’s case suggests. We frown at anything which will put Fr. Mbaka in harm’s way or deny his flock healing”, Okechukwu said adding that his party was in solidarity with him.

    On account of these allegations, the Catholic Secretariat came out and clarified the transfer as a “normal church procedure”. Secretary General of the Secretariat, Rev. Fr. Ralph Madu said such ‘frivolities’ (accusations) have nothing to do with the posting. He said his posting should have been a privilege, and not a punishment and that the bishop has the right to post a priest wherever he feels his services will be more useful to the church.  And that says it all.

    The issue of punishment, security of the lives of Mbaka and his flock which Okechukwu sought to dramatize should not have arisen at all. Not from a quarter that has nothing to do with how priests and other worshippers live their lives. Beyond that, Okechukwu obviously crossed the line of his duty to have questioned the authority of the bishop to transfer a priest under him to where he feels his services will be most needed. Here, we are talking of other peoples religion; their faith. These are very sensitive and emotional issues that should not be mixed with politics.

    It would seem to me given the sensitivity of the matter, that the opinion expressed by Okechukwu should rather be seen as his personal views. Associating his party with such very sensitive and controversial statements that question the authority of the bishop is bound to offend the sensibilities of the Catholic faithful. Nobody needs to be told how volatile and fragile our society can be when it comes to the personal faith of some people.

    It is also curious he even embarked on the hazardous voyage of pontificating on the safety of the priest, that of his followers and the seeming hardship they are bound to face in seeking spiritual healing and assistance at Mbaka’s new place of posting. And if one may ask, on whose authority is Okechukwu dabbling into issues he knows little or nothing about; issues that fall within the purview of the church leadership?

    Before now, the distinction has been made between the ecclesiastical and corporeal realms. That was the major concern of early philosophers and their opinions have come to shape the relationship between modern states and the church. That relationship characterized by separation of the affairs of the church from that of the state was aptly captured by St Augustine in his famous allegory of the two cities- the city of God and earthly city.

    This pristine philosophical perspective came under assault in the hands of Okechukwu when he questioned the powers of the church to transfer one of its priests; to promote or demote priests.  At any rate, who is in a better position to assess the performances of a priest- his supervisor or some other interloper intent to score cheap political point?  Even at that, he has not helped the case of the fiery priest by associating his transfer with partisan politics.

    Beyond all this, Mbaka should take responsibility for the controversy that has trailed his transfer. It was indeed curious hearing a Catholic priest, a missionary for that matter, lamenting that he was going to suffer as he will not have a place to lay his head. It was strange to hear him talk about the problems he will encounter in preserving the property of his ministry which the Catholic Secretariat has described as his private affair.

    If one may ask, what remains of a Catholic priest or any priest for that matter if he is afraid of suffering? What is hardship, suffering or self-mortification to priests who have laid down their lives for the sake of the gospel? Did Our Lord Jesus Christ who they intercede on his behalf not pay the supreme sacrifice for the sake of humanity? For priests that take many vows including obedience, poverty and chastity; priests that abandon their parents, relations and all earthly things, what is there again in suffering that they should be afraid of? A priest that left all the things of the world to serve God better has no need to talk about or entertain any iota of fear about suffering. And what suffering is there in moving to another parish to re-enact that which endeared him to worshippers in his former place of assignment? These are some of the puzzles thrown up by Mbaka’s reaction to the posting.

    There are missionaries all over the world facing untold hardship including threat to their lives for the sake of spreading the word of God. And we talk of suffering in a routine transfer within the vicinity of the same Enugu metropolis. He should take his posting in good faith even if he does not feel good about it. The people of Emene would be very eager to receive and take care of his needs and he may find the place better than what he had imagined.

    But he must come to terms with the line that should exist between the Church and the State. He must begin to sieve the revelations and prophesies that come his way. It is obvious that his recent widely publicized prophesy that many people are planning to kill Buhari so that corruption and embezzlement will continue, is loaded with the frightening prospects of creating more problems for this country than it is intended to solve. He needs to apply more caution on how he conveys such sensitive revelations or prophesies in the future.

  • Mbaka moves to new parish

    Mbaka moves to new parish

    •Says his removal was a witch hunt

    Fiery Catholic priest, Reverend Father Ejike Camillus Mbaka yesterday relocated to his new duty post at Our Lady Parish, Umuchigbo, Njinike accompanied by hundreds of his parishioners admirers and well wishers.

    He was recently transferred from Christ the King parish, GRA, Enugu where he had, over the years, built a cult like fellowship on the strength of precision of most of his prophecies and miracles recorded during prayer sessions at his Adoration Centre .

    Mbaka prophesised the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari ahead of last election and also warned him last month of a plot to kill him.

    His followers believe his transfer is a punishment.

    Mbaka himself said yesterday that his posting is a witch hunt.

    As early as 7am yesterday, a crowd had started forming at the Christ the King (CKP) GRA, Enugu preparatory for the movement.

    Several lorry loads, buses and cars filled with people lined the streets as he made his way to Emene.

    Band groups dished out music to which people were dancing.

    Some were overcome by emotion that they broke down in tears.

    Social and economic activities along the major streets came to a temporary halt.

    The journey lasted about four hours.

    It was a triumphal exit sort of.Mbaka addressed the crowd and said: “I know we are going to suffer between now and a few months to come. I am going to suffer and suffer. I know that.

    “I’m going to suffer because I have no place to put my head. I am going to suffer because I have no place to keep the Adoration Ministry’s assets.

    “I know I’m going to suffer. Fortunately, it is going to happen in the month of lent. So, I am going to use my exit here as a Lenten observance but Jesus said it all in John 16:20 to his apostles that you will be sorrowful and the world will be rejoicing but very soon I will turn your sorrow to joy.

    “But for now I know you are going to suffer. The Adoration Ministry is passing through suffering right now even though I’ve accepted that is the will of God. Is the will of God through suffering? It is a mega suffering

    “The quantum of the assets of the Adoration Ministry is the only thing I am bothered about for now.

    “Where am I going to keep them? I am going to stay in one small room that has only one small bed, one small table, little toilet and bathroom. So where am I going to keep all the adoration assets?

    “My clothing and books I can keep in the car or somebody’s house but where will I keep these assets that I have given to the Catholic church of Enugu?

    “But I say may God take the glory and whoever that has offended me, I have forgiven.

    “I won’t fight anybody or even dream of battling anybody. If anybody allows the devil to use him, the same that advised you to make a mistake will laugh at you when you cry over the error. The baby is born, there is no going back.

    “We are moving out. We have been doing it and we will do it again. Moses was going out with a rod in his hand, Mbaka is moving out with his Bible and this nobody can take away from me.”

    Decrying what he described as “attempt by some persons to politicise the church”, by feeding the Bishop falsely, he declared: “I am giving God the glory and I welcome the church’s choice and action with absolute acceptance and obedience.

    “So there is no negation to what God has approved and what the church suggested. Nobody should see me as a recalcitrant priest. I am not.

    “I have taken an oath of obedience and I stand on it. I pray God to bless all of you who in one way or the other have supported the work of God here and those who have sincerely allowed God to use him or her for the work we did here all these years.

    “God will bless the people of God here and reward you according

    to your labour. The parish is not going to collapse; the church will continue to grow.”

    He likened his posting to Njinike to the journey of the

    Israelites out of Egypt.

    His words: “God has planned a future and hope out of disaster and where I am going. He will go before me to level mountains.

    “The Bible says that He will deliver me from all evil; He will keep my going out and coming in both now and forever… I am praying that God will keep his church and my fellow adorers so that our journey to Umuchigbo will be a journeyof Israelites out of Egypt.

    “Some of them were grumbling leaving Egyptian soil because they were having the phobia for the unknown but

    I am telling you people as a courageous leader, do not be afraid.

    “We are moving and in not distant time, you people are going to smile.”

     

  • Mbaka: Ugwuanyi is God-sent

    Mbaka: Ugwuanyi is God-sent

    Charismatic Catholic priest and Director of the Adoration Ministry (AMEN) in Enugu, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has described Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi as an answered prayer to the people of Enugu.

    Speaking at a mass to mark the beginning of the 2015/2016 Legal Year, Mbaka said the governor needed God’s protection to be able to execute his good plans.

    He warned judicial officers to shun occultism, as involving in it is risky for their lives.

    The reverend father urged them to remember God when delivering judgments, knowing that whatever they say in court would come back to their families in keeping up with the law of spiritual justice.

    The fiery priest admonished them to depend on God and speak for the oppressed because when justice is denied, God is annoyed.

     

     

  • Mbaka flays blackmailers, prays for Buhari

    Mbaka flays blackmailers, prays for Buhari

    [dropcap]F[/dropcap]iery Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has prayed that President Muhammadu Buhari succeeds and that ‘God will protect him so that enemies will not destroy him’.

    The priest spoke yesterday during his 20th priestly anniversary mass at Christ the King Parish, Enugu. He described his success as victory over enemies of truth and blackmailers.

    Mbaka said despite attacks against him, God had continued to protect him because he remained on the side of the truth.

    He said: “I am not tired after 20 years; 20 years of good health; miracles from God; hard apostolic work, and 20 years in the hand of God.

    “There was a time they blackmailed me; they said such things like ‘Mbaka why? Mbaka this, Mbaka that, but I have remained in the hand of God”.

    In a special message titled: 20-point agenda, Fr. Mbaka said he was praying for President Buhari “that God will protect him so that enemies will not destroy him. I also pray for Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi so that occultic men will not steal his vision”.

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  • Mbaka congratulates Buhari

    Mbaka congratulates Buhari

    Fiery Catholic priest Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has joined millions of Nigerians in congratulating President-elect Muhammadu Buhari.

    He said the All Progressives Congress’ (APC’s) standard-bearer is God’s chosen instrument of change to tackle Nigeria’s problems.

    Mbaka prayed that God should endow General Buhari with the wisdom to perform the task, adding: “We see Buhari’s victory as a divine victory for Nigerians, irrespective of our religious and ethnic differences.”

    But the no-nonsense priest was quick to warn that he would be the first to cast the stone if the newly-elected President derailed in the task of nation building.

    Mbaka’s views were contained in a statement by his media consultant, Maximus Ugwuoke.

    The statement said Mbaka and the Adoration Ministry “hold no grudges against anyone who attacked them 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 statement added: “None among the innumerable messages of the Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Nigeria, Rev. Fr. Mbaka, generated  widespread reaction as his 2015 New Year message titled: ‘FROM GOODLUCK TO BADLUCK’, wherein he prophesied from the Oracle of the Holy Spirit that God has rejected Goodluck Jonathan in his re-election bid and chosen General Buhari to address the national problems of corruption, economic crunch, insecurity, bloodshed in the North, poverty and unemployment, which he has failed to tackle.”

    The statement said inter alia: “The transcribed version of this message was published in many national newspapers and also in You Tube and other social media.

    “The popularity of this prophetic message may not be unconnected to the fact that it was declared before over one million worshipers of the ministry, who gathered from all parts of the world for the ministry’s annual December 31 vigil mass. Again the message came at such a time it was seemingly impossible to be realised, especially going by the fact that President Jonathan’s government and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), control virtually all the national apparatus to win the election. In spite of this, Fr. Mbaka maintained in that message that ‘those who think they can interpret the destiny of this country are going to make a mistake this time’.

    “This message attracted widespread reaction, ethnic and religious sentiments, media attacks, criticism, and all kinds of threat and blackmail on Rev. Fr. Mbaka and the Adoration Ministry. They were not spared, even among the church hierarchy, some of who called for Fr. Mbaka’s sanction and the closing of the ministry.

    “It was unfortunate that those who battled Fr. Mbaka and the ministry undermined the untold miracles of healings and other signs and wonders that God performs through him in the ministry. They undermined Fr. Mbaka’s charity work to thousands of students under his scholarship in Nigerian institutions and overseas and the uncountable patients, whose cost of medical bills he undertakes. They undermined the burden of poor Nigerians, whose problems are being shouldered by Fr. Mbaka, which has been the major passion that draws him into humanitarian circle and critique by many, who misconstrue him.

    “The attacks and criticism that followed his New year message (with almost all true worshipers in the ministry getting their shares of the scorn)  escalated to a point that it seemed the fate of the ministry and Fr. Mbaka’s prophetic powers hung in the balance of fulfillment of his prophesies of Buhari’s victory. In the midst of these, Fr. Mbaka remained undeterred.

    “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 Buhari at the March 28 election as the President-elect.

    “We wish to reinstate that before President Jonathan became the President, 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 from the Oracle of the Holy Spirit as he declared.”

  • Mbaka raises fresh alarm over threat to his life

    Mbaka raises fresh alarm over threat to his life

    Fiery Enugu Catholic priest and founder of Adoration Ministry, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka Thursday raised fresh alarm over alleged plans to assassinate him before the March 28 general elections.

    Mbaka spoke of a responsible young man who found his way to the podium while preaching and squeezed in a note in which he advised him to leave the country immediately as his “life has been sold”.

    Mbaka, who spoke through the media officer of the Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Nigeria, Barr. Ike Maximus Ugwuoke, cried out that he had been marked for death before the presidential election.

    In the Press Statement entitled: “JONATHAN WANTS ME DEAD BEFORE THE 2015 ELECTION”, the Adoration Ministry warned that if anything happened to “Mbaka, Jonathan’s government would be held responsible.”

    The statement read: “It is with a deep sense of concern that we are constrained to make this statement on the continued threat to the life of Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka over his 2015 New Year message titled “From Good luck to Badluck”.

    “The issue of threat to Fr’ Mbaka’s life became a public knowledge that it formed the headline of a national daily Publication of 5th January 2015, “My Life in Danger”.  The daily reported, ‘Enugu Catholic priest and the founder of Adoration Ministry, Rev Fr. Ejike Mbaka raised alarm that he has been receiving threat messages following his New Year eve message’.

    “Two days later, 7th January 2015, another daily also reported that the Enugu State Police Command has refuted claims by Fr Mbaka that his life is in danger. It dismissed Fr. Mbaka’s outcry over threat to his life as baseless. The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ebere Amarizu, DSP was quoted as saying, ‘We do not have any report by Fr. Mbaka over threat to his life. We have not received any complaint from him’”.

    The Ministry added that, “On the backdrop of the above, one begins to wonder whether the alarm raised by Fr Mbaka  on an alleged plot to kill him was a mere rhetoric as the police had made it to appear merely because there has not been an official report to the police over it. Absence of a formal report on threat to one’s life doesn’t negate the reality of such threat more so when the victim had made a public outcry on this issue. To argue otherwise is akin to denying the fact of death in the face of a man’s corpse merely because there is no certificate certifying his death.

    “Rev Fr. Mbaka had consistently in his public outings been raising alarm over threat to his life and strange calls and messages threatening to assassinate him.  The last of this was his assertion that assassins from the Presidency had been engaged to exterminate his life before the 28th March 2015 Election.

    “This was coming after he had made a public statement on 8th March 2015 that in the presence of some named witnesses, he rejected a parcel of money sent to him by the First Lady through the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and that the rejected money was with the latter.

    The issue of threat to Fr Mbaka’s life has become worrisome that even at his last Friday’s adoration Programme held on 13th March 2015, he did not turnout in his usual car due to security alert he had of his planned assassination on that day. Thursday strange hoodlums in a black hillux besieged his parish compound but they left disappointed when they could not see him.

    “Wherever and whoever this threat is coming from, we state that there are strong and compelling circumstances pointing towards the fact that Fr. Mbaka’s latest attacks were stemming from his said 2015 New Year message which was not favourable to the President Goodluck Jonathan led administration.

    “We also wish to state that before the 2015 New Year message of Fr .Mbaka, he used to pray for Jonathan’s Government and never raised any alarm on threats to his life but after the 31st night message which he was inspired to preach by the Holy Spirit he has been making a public outcry of threat to his life.  This is a clear case of a witch cries in the night and ones child is found dead in the morning.

    “We advise the Goodluck Jonathan’s government that he has a duty to protect and guarantee Fr Mbaka’s life as Adorers, Nigerians, the Catholic Church and indeed the international community will readily point accusing fingers to him, in event of any misfortune against Fr Mbaka or Adoration Ministry Enugu Nigeria.

    “With the stage the level of threat to Fr Mbaka’s life has reached, we call on Nigerian Police and indeed all security agencies in this country to protect the life of our Spiritual Director we else may resort to enforce his fundamental Rights to life against President Jonathan’s led government  as guaranteed under section 33 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended which confers on Nigerian citizens the power to secure the enforcement of their human rights even in events of likelihood of any infringements.  This is apparently due to the fact that the right to life can only be enjoyed by the living.”

     

  • Mbaka predicts disaster

    Mbaka predicts disaster

    The last time, it was a lampoon of the president; now, calamity is said to loom over the land. CHRIS OJI reports on the latest pronouncement of Rev Fr. Ejike Mbaka, a Catholic Church priest in Enugu

    There is another message from the fiery priest Fr. Ejike Mbaka’s pulpit: an impending catastrophe.

    In a sermon in which he likened Nigeria to the biblical Nineveh, he posited that except there was general repentance, national disaster was ahead.

    He took his text from the Book of Jonah in which the prophet was divinely instructed to go to sinful Nineveh whose doom would only be averted if Jonah warned them and they repented. An unwilling Jonah eventually washed up at Nineveh and delivered the message. Then, what? The people turned round.

    “How do we apply it to us? My fellow Nigerians, disaster is coming. Those who are sleeping should wake.  In a no distant time people will begin to run helter-skelter. That is our message today: disaster is coming.  If Nigerians want to avert the disaster they will repent.

    “When Nineveh heard the news they repented and sought the face of God. They did not pursue Jonah to kill him; even the men of God of those times did not criticize Jonah on his method of preaching…Today, the pope is crying on the gross corruption in Nigeria and gruesome injustice all over the world.  And we Nigerian ministers are calm; we are painting a picture that there is no problem.  If any person tells you that after the election there will be no more problem, that person is a liar. Let us all pray that even 14 February will come.

    We are busy covering the sins of our leaders and thereby sinning against God.  I cannot fool you, my children, I am telling you what God has told me. I’m just a messenger.  When they send you to go and kill Fr. Mbaka, don’t accept to do it because you cannot withstand what it entails.  Everybody has his own gift, so use yours and allow me use mine. Do you know that our sisters and brothers in the North now live in the bush?  What if it happens to the East, and is there any assurance that it will not happen?

    “I want to reiterate here that there is no one kobo of Buhari or Goodluck or Patience or Ekweremmadu in my house.  Let God hear me and see me now.  Nobody gave me one kobo, let everybody hear this disaster is coming.

    What offence did the Ninevites commit that Nigerians have not committed?  So if Nineveh was destroyed, what makes you think that Nigeria cannot be destroyed?

    Let Nigerians listen to God and repent. We just go to church and come back.  Nigerians are just church-goers not true Christians.

    I am not partisan; I am just touched by the condition of the masses.  How many government hospitals are working now?  How many poor people have the money to go to private hospitals?  Some men of God tell the people what they want to hear, not what God wants them to hear. And according to some people this type of men of God are good men of God.

    I pity the Igbo man; where will they run to? Most of the Igbos build their factories in foreign lands and leave their home undeveloped.  When disaster comes he will forfeit many of those things.

    Kidnappers and [ritual murderers], you are also warned that disaster is coming to your camps.

    It is only God’s mercy that is holding our country now.  Unless we repent and ask God’s forgiveness and fast, it will be difficult to avert this disaster. Some people worship our fellow humans and offend God. Let’s seek God’s face now. There will be no safety anywhere except in God.  God is not comfortable watching people dying on bad Nigerian roads. Anybody that dies on that road the blood is on that contractor. The sin in Nigeria is more than that of Nineveh. Our youths are unemployed and graduates still being fed by their parents.  They told us that oil price dropped but before the drop in oil price, what happened?

    “What did they do with the oil money? The money in the country is in the hands of few occult men and some of them are even boasting that they can buy anything even all the priests with their money. It is a lie; you can’t buy all the priests with your dirty money. And if you plan to attack the priests, the angels of God will strike.

    When we talk about insecurity in Nigeria, has the government of the day provided security?  The…Christians that were killed in Madalla church has the government compensated their families?  Are you waiting until it becomes your portion? Those Christians are not worse sinners than us. As things stand right now, no political party will save us right. Those giving you bags of rice are buying your life with bags of rice. Those giving you bread to eat are fooling you because you are the owner of the bakery. Look at the quantum of corruption going on, and they tell us it shall be well, how? A leaking basket can never be filled up.  A person who has nothing and suddenly he says his business is now politics and still suddenly he started building houses and buying property, he is also guarded by soldiers and policemen, such a person is an arch-criminal.

    People of God should not sell their birthright. Anybody that is saying he did this and that for you but in the actual sense he did not do anything for you, don’t vote the person during the election.  Those people telling me to shut up?  It is because they have not been affected. We cannot be afraid of the so-called leaders who are not afraid of God.  I will never be afraid of anybody who is not afraid of God.

    “There is a malignant political cancer in the liver and kidney of our economy. We are still talking about unemployment and bombing here.  But after this disaster, there will be light at the end of the tunnel.”

    Rev Mbaka urged the congregation to pray and do charity works.

    When the message came to Nineveh the president of Nineveh called on all citizens to pray and fast. They say they are constructing trains and building international airports while the poor people are hungry. Let them repair even the roads first before going to trains and airports. They are toying with the reality that God is not happy…the widows are suffering and they expect me to keep quiet. This is blackmail, and I will never keep quiet. The government officials visit foreign lands but they cannot replicate what they see there.  The amount of money they raise for campaign is enough to develop another country altogether.

    Unhealthy accumulation of wealth and banking them here and there is depriving the citizens of their better life.  I encourage all men of God to open their mouths and tell them what God wants them to hear. Our representatives are thieves. The church fights for justice. God will make those wealth they are looting away come back to fight them.

    Samuel was the one who anointed Saul and Saul was still alive when Samuel anointed David. Was Samuel contradicting himself?  Jesus blessed Peter and made him the head of the apostles but the same Jesus told Peter “get behind me Satan.” Did Jesus contradict himself?”

     

    The last time, it was a lampoon of the president; now, calamity is said to loom over the land. CHRIS OJI reports on the latest pronouncement of Rev Fr. Ejike Mbaka, a Catholic Church priest in Enugu

    There is another message from the fiery priest Fr. Ejike Mbaka’s pulpit: an impending catastrophe.

    In a sermon in which he likened Nigeria to the biblical Nineveh, he posited that except there was general repentance, national disaster was ahead.

    He took his text from the Book of Jonah in which the prophet was divinely instructed to go to sinful Nineveh whose doom would only be averted if Jonah warned them and they repented. An unwilling Jonah eventually washed up at Nineveh and delivered the message. Then, what? The people turned round.

    “How do we apply it to us? My fellow Nigerians, disaster is coming. Those who are sleeping should wake.  In a no distant time people will begin to run helter-skelter. That is our message today: disaster is coming.  If Nigerians want to avert the disaster they will repent.

    “When Nineveh heard the news they repented and sought the face of God. They did not pursue Jonah to kill him; even the men of God of those times did not criticize Jonah on his method of preaching…Today, the pope is crying on the gross corruption in Nigeria and gruesome injustice all over the world.  And we Nigerian ministers are calm; we are painting a picture that there is no problem.  If any person tells you that after the election there will be no more problem, that person is a liar. Let us all pray that even 14 February will come.

    We are busy covering the sins of our leaders and thereby sinning against God.  I cannot fool you, my children, I am telling you what God has told me. I’m just a messenger.  When they send you to go and kill Fr. Mbaka, don’t accept to do it because you cannot withstand what it entails.  Everybody has his own gift, so use yours and allow me use mine. Do you know that our sisters and brothers in the North now live in the bush?  What if it happens to the East, and is there any assurance that it will not happen?

    “I want to reiterate here that there is no one kobo of Buhari or Goodluck or Patience or Ekweremmadu in my house.  Let God hear me and see me now.  Nobody gave me one kobo, let everybody hear this disaster is coming.

    What offence did the Ninevites commit that Nigerians have not committed?  So if Nineveh was destroyed, what makes you think that Nigeria cannot be destroyed?

    Let Nigerians listen to God and repent. We just go to church and come back.  Nigerians are just church-goers not true Christians.

    I am not partisan; I am just touched by the condition of the masses.  How many government hospitals are working now?  How many poor people have the money to go to private hospitals?  Some men of God tell the people what they want to hear, not what God wants them to hear. And according to some people this type of men of God are good men of God.

    I pity the Igbo man; where will they run to? Most of the Igbos build their factories in foreign lands and leave their home undeveloped.  When disaster comes he will forfeit many of those things.

    Kidnappers and [ritual murderers], you are also warned that disaster is coming to your camps.

    It is only God’s mercy that is holding our country now.  Unless we repent and ask God’s forgiveness and fast, it will be difficult to avert this disaster. Some people worship our fellow humans and offend God. Let’s seek God’s face now. There will be no safety anywhere except in God.  God is not comfortable watching people dying on bad Nigerian roads. Anybody that dies on that road the blood is on that contractor. The sin in Nigeria is more than that of Nineveh. Our youths are unemployed and graduates still being fed by their parents.  They told us that oil price dropped but before the drop in oil price, what happened?

    “What did they do with the oil money? The money in the country is in the hands of few occult men and some of them are even boasting that they can buy anything even all the priests with their money. It is a lie; you can’t buy all the priests with your dirty money. And if you plan to attack the priests, the angels of God will strike.

    When we talk about insecurity in Nigeria, has the government of the day provided security?  The…Christians that were killed in Madalla church has the government compensated their families?  Are you waiting until it becomes your portion? Those Christians are not worse sinners than us. As things stand right now, no political party will save us right. Those giving you bags of rice are buying your life with bags of rice. Those giving you bread to eat are fooling you because you are the owner of the bakery. Look at the quantum of corruption going on, and they tell us it shall be well, how? A leaking basket can never be filled up.  A person who has nothing and suddenly he says his business is now politics and still suddenly he started building houses and buying property, he is also guarded by soldiers and policemen, such a person is an arch-criminal.

    People of God should not sell their birthright. Anybody that is saying he did this and that for you but in the actual sense he did not do anything for you, don’t vote the person during the election.  Those people telling me to shut up?  It is because they have not been affected. We cannot be afraid of the so-called leaders who are not afraid of God.  I will never be afraid of anybody who is not afraid of God.

    “There is a malignant political cancer in the liver and kidney of our economy. We are still talking about unemployment and bombing here.  But after this disaster, there will be light at the end of the tunnel.”

    Rev Mbaka urged the congregation to pray and do charity works.

    When the message came to Nineveh the president of Nineveh called on all citizens to pray and fast. They say they are constructing trains and building international airports while the poor people are hungry. Let them repair even the roads first before going to trains and airports. They are toying with the reality that God is not happy…the widows are suffering and they expect me to keep quiet. This is blackmail, and I will never keep quiet. The government officials visit foreign lands but they cannot replicate what they see there.  The amount of money they raise for campaign is enough to develop another country altogether.

    Unhealthy accumulation of wealth and banking them here and there is depriving the citizens of their better life.  I encourage all men of God to open their mouths and tell them what God wants them to hear. Our representatives are thieves. The church fights for justice. God will make those wealth they are looting away come back to fight them.

    Samuel was the one who anointed Saul and Saul was still alive when Samuel anointed David. Was Samuel contradicting himself?  Jesus blessed Peter and made him the head of the apostles but the same Jesus told Peter “get behind me Satan.” Did Jesus contradict himself?”