These, indeed, are interesting times when Nigerians are treated to
different forms of absurdities on daily basis. A lot of things that
happen, no matter how odd or insane it may be have come to be viewed as
normal in Nigeria.
One of such incidence is the transfer of a priest, Rev Father Ejike
Mbaka by the leadership of the Catholic Church. An exercise which should
have been a normal internal administrative process, soon became a
national discourse, with the priest and a section of Nigerians, even a
political party accusing the Church of having an ulterior motive.
Father Mbaka loves controversy and the attendant media attention and
hype it gives him. He courts controversy in a rather unusual manner for a
priest, especially of the Catholic Church, which is usually viewed as
being conservative
His utterances before the 2015 general elections, where he publicly
declared support for the candidature of the President Muhammadu Buhari
gave him out as a highly partisan clergyman.
Aside taking sides, he at several times publicly spoke against former
President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience to the consternation
of people of good conscience who still believe priests and the church
should be neutral in matters of politics.
It would also be recalled that after Buhari became President, Father
Mbaka was received at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, where the President
praised him to high heavens, describing him as a very courageous man.
This praises he received at the Villa must have prompted the
controversial cleric to declare, moments later, that some people are
planning to kill the President.
Father Mbaka loves controversy and the attendant media
attention and hype it gives him. He courts controversy in a rather
unusual manner for a priest, especially of the Catholic Church, which is
usually viewed as being conservative
And when his posting came, an otherwise normal action in the Catholic
Church, Mbaka’s reaction was a clear indication that he has other
things on his mind asides priestly work. It also shows his level of
loyalty and commitment to the Catholic Church, given that the Adoration
Ministry under which he makes most of his pronouncements is his private
ministry, and does not belong to the Catholic Church.
The priest, who was posted to Our Lady Parish, Emene from Christ the
King Parish, GRA, Enugu, had busted out, in what was seen as a betrayal
of his true motives, saying his transfer was meant to make him suffer.
“I know we are going to suffer within now and few months to come. I
am going to suffer and suffer; I know that. I’m going to suffer because I
have no place to put my head. I am going to suffer because I have no
place to keep the Adoration Ministry’s assets. I know I’m going to
suffer,” the priest said.
What the priest means by “I am going to suffer and suffer” remains to
be understood. Does it mean that the parish he was sent to oversee does
not have a mission when he said I have no place to put my head? What
does it take to keep the assets of the Adoration Ministry? And in any
case, should Mbaka’s private businesses be the headache of the Catholic
Church, which has actually been liberal by allowing his personal
ministry overshadow his primary duties as a catholic priest?
In yet another display of oddity, the South East zone of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, joined Mbaka in attacking the church over
the legitimate exercise of its administrative process.
And in any case, should Mbaka’s private businesses be the
headache of the Catholic Church, which has actually been liberal by
allowing his personal ministry overshadow his primary duties as a
catholic priest?
The party, in a statement, accused Bishop Callistus Onaga, Mbaka’s boss of being manipulated by external forces to transfer him.
“As 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 election.
“Even the church did not spare him; he was called unprintable names,
yet his prophecy came true”, Osita Okechukwu, the zone’s APC spokesman
said.
Sola is the woman that has the name “
Binta is the latest baby mama in town. She used to be a sexy Guinean
but pregnancy body doesn’t look good on even some of the most beautiful
women in the world.
3. 
Can't these two just get back together? They seem like they are still
into each other. They shared a video of them in a car smiling and
kissing each other on the cheek... She's professed her love to him so
many times...*sigh*.