The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, a
pro-Democracy non-governmental organisation, has dismissed Reverend
Father Ejike Mbaka’s prophesy of an assassination attempt on President
Muhammadu Buhari by corrupt politicians, stressing that the prophesy was
sensational and rumour peddling.
The group who described the
prophesy as a “delusional fantasy” vowed to drag Mbaka to pope Francis
if the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria fails to reprimand him and
stop him from associating actively and notoriously with politicians at
both national and regional levels within the next 21 days
Mbaka,
the Head of the Adoration Ministries, based in Enugu State, had in his
New Year message said some corrupt politicians were out to assassinate
Buhari.
But
HURIWA in a statement jointly signed by the National Coordinator,
Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, and the National Media Affairs Director,
Zainab Yusuf, urged the Nigerian Catholic hierarchy to sanction Mbaka
for abandoning his sacred duty and delving into politics while hiding
under the canopy of his Catholic’s Priestly vocation.
HURIWA while
accusing Mbaka of engaging in cheap and childish rumour mongering,
enjoined the leadership of the Catholic Church to call him to order
because he has become a political loose cannon who cannot separate
sermons from partisan politics.
The group noted that Mbaka’s
prophesy lacks scientific and empirical evidence and smacks of
sensationalism and therefore qualifies as an unmitigated emotional
fallacy and a misdirected outburst, which should be disregarded.
The
statement said, “Fr Mbaka is putting his priestly calling and office to
the pecuniary services of the All Progressives Congress of President
Buhari because it is barely two weeks he was photographed smiling with
his Political host in the Presidential mansion President Muhammadu
Buhari that he emerged from his delusional hibernation to manufacture
cock-and -bull story about some plots to assassinate Mr President by
corrupt politicians.”
HURIWA
said, “Is Fr Mbaka a judge who has passed presiding over cases of
alleged graft involving any immediate past political office holder and
adjudged them guilty of corrupt practices? Is Fr Mbaka unaware that as
the Commander-In-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces that President
Muhammadu Buhari is the most protected citizen in Nigeria now with
hundreds of well armed and highly trained professional guards drawn from
the Nigerian Military and the Secret Police headed by President
Muhammadu Buhari’s Kinsman?
“Is
Fr Mbaka unaware that Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari is
waging a counter terror war and that the armed Islamists have vowed in
several media recordings to kill not just the Commander in chief but
officials of government? This MBAKA’S whitewash must be consigned to the
dustbins without further delay.”

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