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<\/a>The fiery priest and Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry has presided as the Parish Priest of Christ the King Parish, G.R.A, for over 20 years.<\/p>\nBut in the Emene parish, where he was transferred to, he is to serve under another priest.<\/p>\n
Spokesperson of the APC South-East Caucus, Osita Okechukwu, who spoke against the transfer of Mbaka said, \u201cIt was wrong to punish the fearless priest for his prophecies which has proved to be from God.\u201d<\/p>\n
Okechukwu while expressing concern over Mbaka\u2019s safety alleged that the transfer was influenced by outside forces, adding that worshippers may find it difficult to get to Emene for programmes of the Adoration Ministry.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cWhereas we accept that the transfer of priests is a routine exercise of the great Catholic Church, however we do not wholly accept a situation where the church allows external forces to influence transfer as the Mbaka\u2019s case suggests.<\/p>\n
\u201cOtherwise, future liberation clergy who speak truth to power will be hamstrung to the detriment of the society.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur major concern is the security implications and the fate of his flocks who are mostly the downtrodden who may find it difficult to go to Emene for salvation and healing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe frown at anything which will put Fr. Mbaka in harms way or deny his flocks healing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Okechukwu, while stating that the priest has been under attack from President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s opponent since he prophesied that the President will win the last election, noted that the party was in solidarity with the priest and condemn all attacks on him.<\/p>\n
He alleged that the leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo influenced Mbaka\u2019s transfer to a new parish where he will serve under someone else.<\/p>\n
Okechukwu said, \u201cAs a party, we have watched with concern and trepidation the criticism, the attack, assault and unpleasant comments hurled against Fr. Mbaka since he providentially prophesied that President Buhari would win the 2015 elections.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven the Church did not spare him, he was called unprintable names, yet his prophecy came true. We are happy that Fr. Mbaka was vindicated.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt must be pointed out that accusing fingers were pointed at the direction of some anti-Buhari elements like Ohanaeze Ndigbo, a group that didn\u2019t want to hear the name of Buhari \u2013 even though Ohanaeze denied the allegation, doubts still persists.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor we are still at a loss why a senior priest will be degraded to an assistant parish priest.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe repeat that we are in solidarity with Fr. Mbaka and our major concern is the security of Fr. Mbaka and the suffering of his flocks mostly the poor who need his healing powers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had thought that His Lordship Bishop Calistus Onaga could have retained him at the Adoration Ground, as the Bishop Emeritus Gbuji did because of security of his life and easy access by his flocks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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The All Progressives Congress (APC), on Sunday, condemned the decision by leadership of the Catholic Church, Enugu Parish to transfer the fire-brand Enugu cleric, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka from Christ the King Parish in the Government Reserved Area, GRA, of the state to\u00a0Our Lady Parish in Emene, a suburb of the state. The fiery priest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[1251,1250],"class_list":["post-7364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-osita-okechukwu","tag-rev-father-mbaka"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mbaka.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1UM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7367,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364\/revisions\/7367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}