The
vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Peter Obi, has
asked people to stop attacking Rev Ejike Mbaka over his prophecies.
Obi’s
reaction came following a pronouncement by Mbaka on Sunday that both Alhaji
Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and President Muhammadu of the
All Progressives Congress might not win the 2019 presidential election.
In
a statement by Obi’s media aide, Val Obienyem, the former governor of Anambra
State said he did not feel bad about the priest’s pronouncement.
Obi
maintained that in every situation, there would be something positive to learn
from it, adding that Mbaka had always spoken from the “higher perspective of
wisdom.”
The
PDP vice presidential candidate implored the laity to always remember their
priests in prayers, adding that it was wrong for priests to be attacked based
on what they said on the pulpits.
He
said,”Please let us leave Fr. Mbaka alone; our duty to him is prayers for God
to lead him aright.
“While
one may disagree with him, we should always acknowledge that he speaks and acts
from the higher perspective of wisdom.”
Obi
who noted that he had a reverend sister and a reverend father as elder and
younger siblings respectively, added, “I have full respect for men of God
and will always remember them in my prayers. When they go wrong as humans,
subject to human frailties, ours is not to castigate them, but to pray to God
to lead them aright.”
Describing
donations to churches as an “appreciation of God’s love and benevolence to us,
Obi said “ they attract more rewards when done secretly.”
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