‘Stingy man’: Mbaka apologises to Obi, supporters
The Spiritual Director, Adoration Ministry Enugu, Nigeria, Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka, on Friday, tendered a public apology to the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi and his supporters over his utterances against his person.
The Catholic Diocese of Enugu State had, shortly after his comment on Wednesday during his midweek activities declared that Obi will not become Nigeria’s President, for the reason that he is ‘stingy,’ disowned him.
The church while describing his political utterances as divisive and unbecoming of a priest, said that attack breached canon 220 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law which prohibits anyone from illegitimately harming the good name of a person.
However, Mbaka on Friday tendered an unreserved public apology to Obi and his supporters in a letter he personally signed.
In the apology letter titled, ‘Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka Blesses His Excellency Peter Obi and His Supporters’, the controversial Catholic priest asked for understanding and forgiveness.
Mbaka in the letter prayed for the former governor of Anambra State, that God will grant him his heart desires and other presidential candidates.
He decried the increasing insecurity in Nigeria which he attributed to bad leadership and appealed to Nigerian youths to also pray that God in his mercy will give Nigeria man after his heart as the next president. (Punch)
