Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has described as childish and laughable allegations that he is attacking President Muhammadu Buhari because he requested contracts and was rebuffed.
Vanguard reported that Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to the President, Garba Shehu in response to Mbaka’s call for Buhari to resign or be impeached by the National Assembly alleged that Mbaka’s attack follows his failure to get contracts from the federal government.
Addressing the allegation in his Sunday sermon obtained by Vanguard, Mbaka said, “When they talk about giving Fr Mbaka contracts, I don’t want to talk about that because it is a laughable, childish accusation. Whoever is saying that is a shame to himself and shame to the people he is representing. “Fr Mbaka’s voice came from the spiritual, so what I am saying is unchallengeable. I have been silent because I was waiting for them to change until God said ‘speak’.
“Some messages are like dew, some are like rain while some are like thunder. Anyone challenging that message is challenging the God of thunder and should be careful. “The Fr Mbaka who was speaking is not just a priest but by the special grace of God a job provider. To the glory of God, those benefiting directly from me monthly through direct salary are not less than 23,000 people.
“That person challenging Fr Mbaka, how many people are you feeding? So if I talk you talk? Because the government is paying you? “I’m not here to defend any allegation, but the three men he mentioned are people that could have handled the nation’s insecurity. This was during Buhari’s first term and these men told them they can help conquer insecurity.
“These men had the platform to end insecurity within one month. This was under Abba Kyari. I just handed them over to government. They only asked me to help them reach government and offered to help insecurity, revive the nation’s economy through putting an end to theft of crude oil and providing employment.
“Anyone who says the truth is branded a terrorist. “Are those given contracts better than me? They have shown that they don’t have a reward mechanism. “The last person this administration should fight is Fr Mbaka.” He said.
Meanwhile, Ejike Mbaka has urged the All Progressives Congress, APC, not to waste any time in carrying out its threat of reporting him to the Pope. Mbaka was responding to Yekini Nabena, Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the APC who in a statement said those calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to either resign or be impeached because of the current challenges is ungodly.
Mbaka addressed the threat alongside other issues raised last week during his sermon on Sunday. Nabena’s statement read in part, “One will wonder whom Father Mbaka is emulating because the Lord Jesus Christ did not threaten to bring down the government during his own time, in fact, Jesus Christ obeyed and honoured constituted authority.
“That’s why he paid his tax. We are calling on Father Mbaka to concentrate on his spiritual calling and stop speaking like politicians who it is obvious he (Mbaka) has been dining and wining with. “If Mbaka has found another political ally, it is better to leave a political message for politicians. “Calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to either resign or be impeached because of the current challenges is ungodly.
“Father Mbaka should not, however, take his luck too far because there is a lot to tell the Vatican and the Pope about his person and his sources of inspiration.”
Dismissing threats to report him to the Pope, Mbaka urged the party to quickly do so, saying, “If the Pope knows I am speaking against bad governance, he will clap for me. So please, quickly go to Rome. “Why I don’t even want them to go to Rome is because, if Rome hears about this, they may give me a position I don’t like.”
