Following the outburst against Presidential aspirant Peter Obi, the Catholic Church, Enugu Diocese has suspended service at the Adoration Ministry in Enugu and has also condemned Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka‘s action.
Followers of Mbaka’s Adoration Ministry led a protest in the regard but Fr Mbaka has since advise them otherwise and also apologized to the Catholic church and to Peter Obi for his statement.
The clergyman, had called the presidential aspirant of the Labour Party, Peter Obi a stingy man and he had disowned him. He also said the man would not win the coming presidential election.
Not long after the outburst, the Catholic Diocese of Enugu stood out against it and said Mbaka breached the Canon 220 of 1983 Code of Canon Law that prohibited anyone from illegitimately harming the good name of a person.
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Peter Obi finally reacted to the statement by Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka that he is stingy and will never be Nigeria’s President.
Speaking in a viral video on Monday, Peter Obi said that Mbaka remains his priest and father in faith and he respects the cleric.
The former Governor noted that if he attended the service where Mbaka made the declaration, he would have told him to pray for him to overcome the vision he saw.
“For me, Father Mbaka is an ordained priest of God and as a priest, he remains my priest. I will always respect and show my allegiance to the church. Whatever he says, I will take it because he’s my father in faith. I respect him and he’s my brother.
“Whenever he says something wrong, I pray over it, if he says something right, I pray over it. Mine is prayers, whatever he does I love him. I don’t have any problem with him.
“If he says I am not going to be voted for because I don’t have money, I will pray that God will make those collecting money to vote to see reasons they should not do that.
“In fact, if I was there, I would have told him to pray for me to overcome it. I have met pastors who tell me things and I say since you have seen it let us pray that it doesn’t happen.”
