Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka's spokesman has alleged that there was an
assassination attempt on the controversial priest in Enugu State on
Thursday. The spokesman, Maximus Ugwuoke blamed it on politics as the
attack comes days after Mbaka publicly declared the Abubakar-Obi ticket
doomed. Read the statement below...“It is with rude shock and utter
surprise that we received the report of the attempted assassination plot
of the Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry Enugu Nigeria last
Thursday evening by some unknown gun men who fired gun shots at him on
his way in Enugu. This incident has added to several other
assassination plots targeted at Fr. Mbaka since after the first plot
that was carried out on him on his way from the Bishop’s house where he
had gone to answer an impromptu call by his Bishop during the regime of
Governor Chimaroke Nnamani of Enugu State.This assassination plot
against Fr. Mbaka is coming barely few days after the 2018 Harvest and
Bazaar of the Ministry whereat Fr. Mbaka had come under massive media
attack for asking Peter Obi, the PDP Vice Presidential candidate for the
2019 general elections who attended the Bazaar programme, to make
public his support or donation for the Church Project of the
Ministry.Many supporters of Peter Obi and even clergies have
misconstrued this as embarrassing to Peter Obi and to the Catholic
Church and this has consequently given rise to the statement issued by
the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) that same Thursday on
the issue.The issue had lingered inspite of the apology which Fr. Mbaka
in his characteristic humility had tendered at the altar to Peter Obi
and anyone who may have, in any way, form or shape been offended at the
Bazaar event. We have refrained from making any official statement on
the ongoing media attack against Fr Mbaka over the Baazar incident
because he had held us back from joining issues with the Church clergies
and hierarchies on the subject, but we cannot continue to keep silent
especially now that the issue is taking the dimension of a plot to
terminate his life. We recall that the last time Fr. Mbaka raised alarm
over threat to exterminate him was in early 2015 when he faced a
similar persecution by some church hierarchy and the PDP Government
following his 31st December Prophecy of the imminent defeat of former
President Goodluck Jonathan led PDP Government by President Mohammadu
Buhari at the 2015 general elections. Today with the 2019 general
elections around the corner, it appears that history is repeating
itself. The contemporaneousness of the recent attack of Fr. Mbaka by
gunmen with the Peter Obi and the CBCN saga leaves us to a safe
conclusion that the attack on Fr. Mbaka may have either been politically
engineered or ecumenically endorsed, and thus we will not hesitate to
call on the security agencies in this country to beam their search
lights and leave no stone unturned in getting to the root of this
issue.Fr Mbaka’s life means so much to us and many poor and voiceless
Nigerians for whom he lives and so we cannot be silent on the face of
any threat to his life real or perceived”.Unknown gunmen attack Father Mbaka in Enugu
Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka's spokesman has alleged that there was an
assassination attempt on the controversial priest in Enugu State on
Thursday. The spokesman, Maximus Ugwuoke blamed it on politics as the
attack comes days after Mbaka publicly declared the Abubakar-Obi ticket
doomed. Read the statement below...“It is with rude shock and utter
surprise that we received the report of the attempted assassination plot
of the Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry Enugu Nigeria last
Thursday evening by some unknown gun men who fired gun shots at him on
his way in Enugu. This incident has added to several other
assassination plots targeted at Fr. Mbaka since after the first plot
that was carried out on him on his way from the Bishop’s house where he
had gone to answer an impromptu call by his Bishop during the regime of
Governor Chimaroke Nnamani of Enugu State.This assassination plot
against Fr. Mbaka is coming barely few days after the 2018 Harvest and
Bazaar of the Ministry whereat Fr. Mbaka had come under massive media
attack for asking Peter Obi, the PDP Vice Presidential candidate for the
2019 general elections who attended the Bazaar programme, to make
public his support or donation for the Church Project of the
Ministry.Many supporters of Peter Obi and even clergies have
misconstrued this as embarrassing to Peter Obi and to the Catholic
Church and this has consequently given rise to the statement issued by
the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) that same Thursday on
the issue.The issue had lingered inspite of the apology which Fr. Mbaka
in his characteristic humility had tendered at the altar to Peter Obi
and anyone who may have, in any way, form or shape been offended at the
Bazaar event. We have refrained from making any official statement on
the ongoing media attack against Fr Mbaka over the Baazar incident
because he had held us back from joining issues with the Church clergies
and hierarchies on the subject, but we cannot continue to keep silent
especially now that the issue is taking the dimension of a plot to
terminate his life. We recall that the last time Fr. Mbaka raised alarm
over threat to exterminate him was in early 2015 when he faced a
similar persecution by some church hierarchy and the PDP Government
following his 31st December Prophecy of the imminent defeat of former
President Goodluck Jonathan led PDP Government by President Mohammadu
Buhari at the 2015 general elections. Today with the 2019 general
elections around the corner, it appears that history is repeating
itself. The contemporaneousness of the recent attack of Fr. Mbaka by
gunmen with the Peter Obi and the CBCN saga leaves us to a safe
conclusion that the attack on Fr. Mbaka may have either been politically
engineered or ecumenically endorsed, and thus we will not hesitate to
call on the security agencies in this country to beam their search
lights and leave no stone unturned in getting to the root of this
issue.Fr Mbaka’s life means so much to us and many poor and voiceless
Nigerians for whom he lives and so we cannot be silent on the face of
any threat to his life real or perceived”.
