The Jonathans and the bird that didn’t fly: Our problem withMbaka – Enugu monarch

The last appears not to have been heard over the Enugu
Catholic Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka’s new year message that
President Goodluck Jonathan should forget re-election for lack
of performance.
The traditional ruler of Egali Amalla autonomous community in
Udenu local government area of Enugu State, Igwe Patrick Eze
(Waziri), said Mbaka remained a politician in the cassock . “It
is better for Mbaka to join politics, contest election to have a
taste of power other than calling people names, asking the
president to resign. Who actually made Fr.
Mbaka a judge that determines who should be entrusted with
power. Rev. Fr. Mbaka should resign as a priest and join
politics since he has shifted from God’s vineyard to
politics,”Eze said. Rev-Father-Mbaka
He continued: “The name Mbaka is an identity and not the
human as there is nothing so special, simply because he is a
priest in Catholic.
Let him face the Catholic faithful, evangelize to win souls for
God rather than tongue lashing the president as being corrupt.
The Catholic preacher ought to have devoted more time,
fasting and praying for the release of the Chibok girls than
apportioning blames for insecurity”.
The traditional ruler was displeased that the First Lady, Dame
Patience Jonathan, and the deputy Senate President, Senator
Ike Ekweremadu, visited Mbaka’s Adoration Ministry in the
first place, explaining that the visit triggered the priest’s
somersault. Eze pointed out that the somersault was
surprising as he had earlier blessed Patience Jonathan to
continue as Nigerian’s First Lady after the 2015 general
elections, pointing out that the u-turn was a clear
manifestation of a politician in cleric uniform preaching politics
instead of the word of God to over 30,000 worshipers every
Wednesday.
“Mbaka, having said that one out of the four birds he released
on the First Lady’s visit to the Adoration Ground refused to
fly, indicating that Jonathan would not be re-elected as
president, what happened to the other three that flew? Can’t
the three fight for Jonathan if actually the message was
divine?”, he stated.
“My new year message to my community and the state
generally is not personal on Fr.Mbaka as the biblical
injunction says ‘’ touch not my anointed and do my prophet
no harm’. Mbaka should equally know that Jonathan was also
anointed by over 150 million Nigerians in the 2011 general
elections in the country”.
On the claim by the priest that he has been receiving threat
messages since the new year message in which he asked
Nigerians not to re-elect Jonathan, the monarch asked Mbaka
not cry wolf where none exists as he ought to have delivered
the message about the bird that refused to fly to the First
Lady during her visit to Adoration Ground. “If Gen Mohammed
Buhari, with the APC presidential ticket, was Fr. Mbaka’s
choice, let him campaign for him through his sermon and pull
over 30,000 worshipers of the Adoration to the APC. The
January 4, 2015 message to the congregation was meant to
discredit Jonathan’s transformation agenda (TAN) of
openness, fairplay justice, honesty and accountability”, Eze
stated.
“The clerk delves into politics in the name of God. During the
era of erstwhile Governor Chimaroke Nnamani, Mbaka vowed
to drop his cassock should Chimaroke win election for second
term in office but failed to keep his words when Chimaroke
was re-elected.
‘’During the time of Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo as National
Chairman of the PDP, he preached a message titled, Nsukka
Ndo nu (meaning Nsukka sorry) to slight the teeming
population of Nsukka.
“It is only in Nigeria that you see men of God that predict
what will happen in other countries both in the air and under
the sea but would not predict the collapse of their churches.
We expect men of God to preach messages of salvation and
repentance, pray for the survival of the nation rather than
delving into politics to gain cheap popularity.
“Most of the men of God crave for recognition and that is why
they mount the pulpit to attack those in the authority in the
country. If Mbaka feels threatened, let him seek police
protection but he should equally remember that he has laid
his life for Christ on the day of his ordination.”
2015 ELECTIONS
The monarch urged the electorate to use their tongues to
count their teeth in the next month’s general elections. Saying
politicians employ all manners of antics to find their way into
the corridor of power, he said: “We should all be aware that
the unity of the country is paramount no matter whose ox is
gored. Elections are not a do or die affair. Power belongs to
God, so people should not force themselves into power to the
detriment of the electorate.
“Nigerians have waited for so long for the 2015 general
elections and we should go about it with the fear of God who
is ultimate decider of life and death. Any contestant that loses
out should quietly wait for God’s appointed time if any, as we
do not deserve violence and blood bath as recorded in 2011.
“May I use this medium to advise all PDP guber aspirants
litigant to sheath their sword and join hands with the
consensus candidate, Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, who was
anointed by Gov. Sullivan Chime, the National Chairman of the
PDP, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, and Enugu State stakeholders who
described Ugwuanyi as the most popular and acceptable
candidate to fly the flag of the party in the state. The
sweetest part of Chime’s administration was fulfilling his
avowed promise of giving the guber ticket to Enugu North
unlike his predecessors who made similar promise but
reneged. Governor Chime stuck his neck for Nsukka to produce
the next governor of the state and that is the more reason all
the litigants from the zone in the PDP should wind down and
join hands with their kinsman, Ugwuanyi, for effective
governance. The zoning formular that played out in Enugu is
now a template for continuity. God has been merciful to the
people of Enugu through Chime. I believe Ugwuanyi will deliver
as expected. He is my subject and I knew him from birth to
adulthood. He should be mindful that his predecessor left big
legacies which need to be improved upon.”