The Ohanaeze Ndigbo says the Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Rev.Fr. Ejike Mbaka, needs psychological and spiritual help, calling Nigerians to pray for him.
Secretary-General of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, stated this in a statement on Friday.
He was reacting to Mbaka’s attack on the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi.
In a comment that has generated a social media storm, the Catholic cleric called Obi “a stingy man“.
However, the media aide of the businessman-cum-politician said in a statement that he would not be joining issues with Mbaka.
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Reacting to Mbaka’s comment, Ohanaeze hailed the Enugu Diocese of Catholic Church for issuing a prompt disclaimer about his “inflammatory and unwarranted assault” on Obi’s person.
The statement read, “We were not surprised that Fr. Mbaka acted as a machinery of doom paid by a southeast Governor to sow seeds of discord in attempting to halt a celebrity status of Mr.Peter Obi and his National acceptance as a unifying Presidential candidate for Nigerians.
“Fr. Camillus Ejike Mbaka recently applauded Senator Chimaroke Nnamani who he was once labelled in the year 2001, as the then killer Governor of Enugu state, in the recent past Fr. Mbaka apologized to Ex-Governor Ikedi Ohakim whom he was instrumental in the removal of the Ex-Governor from office through his notorious hype and propaganda.
“Mbaka is human bound to make blunders and needs our prayers, psychological and spiritual assistance to bounce back, and we know that the Enugu Diocese of Catholic Church has cautioned him in privately to refrain from political pronouncements.
“Go and Sin no more Fr. Mbaka, we implore Mr.Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s Presidential candidate to find a way to forgive Mbaka, to err is human, and to forgive is Divine.
“Nigerians are watching keenly and waiting patiently for more paid agents from southeastern Nigeria hired to do the campaign of calumny against the new Nigeria’s movement ‘ Take Back Nigeria Mantra led by the millions of Nigerians for Mr.Peter Obi”.