Last Christmas, Father Mbaka gained national prominence by criticising the government of former president Dr Goodluck Jonathan for not caring about the plight of ordinary Nigerians. He has since become a cult hero in certain circles and over the recent festive period prophesised that there will be an assassination attempt on President Buhari by corrupt politicians.
Non-governmental organisation Huriwa, has condemned the prophesy as sensational and rumour peddling. It also described the prophesy as a delusional fantasy and has vowed to drag Father Mbaka before Pope Francis if the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria fails to reprimand him and stop him from associating actively and notoriously with within the next 21 days.
In his New Year message, Father Mbaka, the head of the Adoration Ministries, based in Enugu State, said some corrupt politicians were out to assassinate President Buhari. During the festive season, President Buhari hosted Father Mbaka at the presidential villa where he praised his honesty and forthrightness.
Huriwa's national coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, urged the Nigerian Catholic hierarchy to sanction Father Mbaka for abandoning his sacred duty and delving into politics while hiding under the canopy of his priestly vocation. In a statement also signed by Huriwa's media affairs director Zainab Yusuf, Comrade Onwubiko accused Father Mbaka of engaging in cheap and childish rumour mongering.
Comrade Onwubiko enjoined the leadership of the Catholic Church to call him to order because he has become a political loose cannon who cannot separate sermons from partisan politics. According to Huriwa, Father Mbaka’s prophesy lacks scientific and empirical evidence and smacks of sensationalism and therefore qualifies as an unmitigated emotional fallacy and a misdirected outburst, which should be disregarded.
“Father Mbaka is putting his priestly calling and office to the pecuniary services of the All Progressives Congress of President Buhari because it is barely two weeks he was photographed smiling with his political host in the presidential mansion. He emerged from his delusional hibernation to manufacture cock-and -bull story about some plots to assassinate Mr President by corrupt politicians.
“Is Father Mbaka a judge who has presiding over cases of alleged graft involving any immediate past political office holder and adjudged them guilty of corrupt practices? Is Father Mbaka unaware that as the commander-in-chief of the Nigerian armed forces that President Muhammadu Buhari is the most protected citizen in Nigeria now with hundreds of well armed and highly trained professional guards drawn from the Nigerian military and the secret police headed his kinsman?" Comrade Onwubiko added.
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