Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, on Friday, June 17, has reacted to a recent prophecy by Father Ejike Mbaka, Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, describing Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi as a ‘stingy man.’
Mbaka said on Wednesday during an adoring program that Peter Obi could not be elected President of Nigeria because he is too stingy and would impoverish Nigerians.
Concerned Nigerians, mainly Obi fans, have continued to respond to Mbaka’s remark, taking to social media to condemn him.
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The Catholic Diocese of Enugu has also condemned Mbaka’s provocative political remarks, encouraging the general people to hold him accountable.
In a statement issued on Friday morning, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, Secretary-General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, advised Mbaka to go and sin no more, begging Obi to forgive him.
The statement read in part;
Ohanaeze Ndigbo worldwide has praised the Enugu Diocese of Catholic Church, led by Bishop Onaga for the prompt disclaimer to the inflammatory and unwarranted assault on the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, and a Catholic brethren, Mr. Peter Obi.
We were not surprised that Fr. Mbaka acted as a machinery of doom paid by a South-East 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.
Isiguzoro further noted;
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 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.
