Controversial Catholic priest of Enugu Adoration ministry, Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka has inferred that the Catholic church may have had a hand in his latest alleged assassination attempt.
Mbaka on Saturday evening issued a release on the assassination attempt on him in Enugu on Thursday.
Mbaka’s spokesman, Maximus Ugwuoke said that whereas the incident took place on Thursday, spoke about it on Friday Adoration crusade but the ministry officially disclosed it on Saturday night.
Meanwhile, Ebonyi state Governor, Dave Umahi, who was a beneficial of Mbaka’s blessing last Sunday has called for investigation of the allegation.
In the statement signed by five officials of Adoration ministry alluded that other alleged attempts on the priest’s life in 2002 and 2015 were also politically incline.
The statement reads: “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 .
“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 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 plot to exterminate 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 Election.
“Today with the 2019 general election 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.
“The graphic narration of the sinister assassination plot as recounted by Fr Mbaka himself during the last Friday’s all night Adoration vigil should not be taken lightly and we charge the security agencies in this country to arise to the situation.
We continue to thank God for His continuous miraculous protection of Fr Mbaka and for His Special Supernatural Security (SSS) of Fr Mbaka and the Adoration Ministry.
“We are by this medium sending a strong warning to wherever the assassination plot against Fr Mbaka is coming from, be it the politicians or their supporters or the Church that we shall not fold our hands and keep watching.
“We shall not only expose the source of this threat to the life of Fr Mbaka at the fullness of our investigations but we shall also match same with equal force in self defence. While we have the faith that God will fight our cause, we believe even more in the defence of our faith through our good works and actions.”
Governor Umahi who spoke as chairman of the South East Governors Forum is in his statement expressed great shock over the alleged assassination attempt on Mbaka and called on security agencies to unravel the circumstances surrounding the alleged attack on the Catholic Priest.
Governor Umahi in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Emmanuel Uzor described the alleged attack on the priest as highest provocation of man against God and called for full scale investigation to unravel those behind the attempted assaination.
He said the attempted assaination of the Catholic priest shows how low men have descended on their inordinate quest for Power and silence the truth and thanked God for saving the life of Fr Mbaka while calling on Inspector General of Police to dispatch a crack team to investigate the alleged attack.
Governor Umahi further warned politicians who are so desperate about 2019 general election to play by the rules while insisting that nobody’s political ambition is worth blood of any citizen, adding that they should know that it is dangerous to touch God’s anointed or to do harm to His Prophet. (Vanguard)
