{"id":98147,"date":"2023-10-20T10:07:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T09:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/dont-come-to-my-bazaar-if-you-wont-donate-money-fr-mbaka-warns-politicians"},"modified":"2023-10-20T13:37:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T12:37:22","slug":"dont-come-to-my-bazaar-if-you-wont-donate-money-fr-mbaka-warns-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dont-come-to-my-bazaar-if-you-wont-donate-money-fr-mbaka-warns-politicians","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t come to my bazaar if you won\u2019t donate money \u2013 Fr Mbaka warns politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The spiritual director of the Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Nigeria, AMEN, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has warned politicians not to come to his bazaar if they would not donate money.<\/p>\n

Mbaka stated this in a video recorded during one of his church programmes.<\/p>\n

In a veiled attack on the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, who he had at last year\u2019s bazaar described as a \u2018stingy man\u2019, Mbaka said he didn\u2019t want someone who would come to his bazaar and refuse to break cola.<\/p>\n

DAILY POST reported that the \u2018stingy man\u2019 remark was widely condemned by many Nigerians, especially the Catholic Church authority.<\/p>\n

Mbaka later apologized to Obi following an order by the Catholic Bishop of Enugu diocese, Most Rev Callistus Onaga.<\/p>\n

However, it has become evident that the apology didn\u2019t go down well with Mbaka.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cOn 12th November, we will have a bazaar. The agenda is mega wealth. Not meager, mega wealth.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone should go and prepare well for it. Save what you will use to show God appreciation. At least once in a year, you show appreciation to God.<\/p>\n

\u201cCome along with all our friends. Don\u2019t come with someone who will be bad luck for us. Or someone who will come here to make trouble. Or someone who will come here that day and refuse to break cola.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we have that day is giving money to God. If you know you wouldn\u2019t want to participate in it, don\u2019t come.<\/p>\n

\u201cBazaar has a spirit that accompanies it. When we see you, you will be given a microphone to come and kill a cow for God. It\u2019s not an insult, it\u2019s a …for God.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if you say no and would want to make trouble for us because you know the way to the Bishop\u2019s house or anywhere else, you will only meet trouble at the end of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t understand how someone would come for a bazaar and refuse to break cola and a Rev Father would be asked to go and apologize to him. And it\u2019s being told as a story. The one who\u2019s right then becomes wrong and vice versa.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet it not happen again, because if someone tries it again, he will be forced to beg for food with empty plates in the street.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone that will put us in trouble again, there\u2019s nothing he puts hand on that will progress. You don\u2019t need to be told that God is in our midst here. So if any makes trouble with us, he\u2019s finding God\u2019s trouble.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you put your hands in whatever that will happen to me, you will be embarrassed. You may not know the one I\u2019m worshipping but I know him.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the banks we have relationships with should come and do something for God in the bazaar. If they don\u2019t come, it means they don\u2019t want our relationship again. Yes, it\u2019s business.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thank Fidelity and Zenith banks so far. They have been cooperating. Last year Fidelity bank broke cola with N5 million.<\/p>\n

The Prado jeep I drive was given to me by the Zenith bank.\u201d<\/p>\n

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