Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP),
says Ejike Mbaka, spiritual director of Adoration Ministries, Enugu, Nigeria
(AMEN), remains his father in faith no matter what he does.
On June 16, Mbaka had said Obi cannot be Nigeria’s president
because he is “stingy”.
“It is better to have an old man with a generous spirit than
to have a young man with ‘gum’ hands. Peter has a curse, he is not going
anywhere if he doesn’t come to kneel down on this adoration altar,” the priest
had said.
The comment had elicited criticism, after which Mbaka
apologised over the remark.
However, the bishop of Enugu had banned Catholics from
attending the adoration centre — a decision which resulted in a protest on
Sunday.
But Mbaka dissociated himself from the protest, saying he
remains under the authority of the Catholic church.
In an interview with Voice of the People 90.3FM, streamed on
YouTube on Sunday, Obi said despite the remark, he will always respect Mbaka as
a priest.
“For me, Father Mbaka
is an ordained priest of God and as a priest, he remains my priest and I will
always respect and show my allegiance to the church,” Obi said.
“And whatever he says, I take, because he is my father, he
is my father in faith and I respect him any day. He is my brother. We are very
close; that’s my own. And whenever he says something wrong, I pray over it. If
he says something right, I pray over it. So, mine is prayers and whatever he
does, I love him. This is me because he is a priest of God.
“I don’t have any problem with him. Whatever he says, I put
it in prayers. If he says I’m not going to be voted because I don’t have money,
my prayer is may God make these people who are collecting money to vote to see
reasons why they should not do so. That’s prayers.
“In fact, I had travelled when he said that. If I was there,
I would have told him ‘since you’ve seen this, pray for me to overcome it’.
That’s what I tell to every pastor. I meet pastors everyday who tell me ‘Peter,
this is what is going to happen’. And I tell them ‘since you’ve seen it, let’s
pray that it doesn’t happen’.”
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