If you won’t donate money, don’t come to my bazaar – Fr Mbaka warns politicians

The spiritual director of the Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Nigeria, AMEN, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has issued a strong warning to politicians regarding their participation in his fundraising event.

In a video recorded during one of his church programs, Mbaka emphasized that politicians should not attend his bazaar if they are not willing to donate money.

This statement was indirectly aimed at Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, whom Mbaka had previously criticized for being “stingy” at last year’s bazaar.

Mbaka’s remark had received widespread condemnation, particularly from the Catholic Church authority.

Despite later apologizing to Obi as directed by the Catholic Bishop of Enugu diocese, Most Rev Callistus Onaga, it is evident that the apology did not sit well with Mbaka.

He said, “On 12th November, we will have a bazaar. The agenda is mega wealth. Not meager, mega wealth.

“Everyone 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.

“Come along with all our friends. Don’t 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.

What we have that day is giving money to God. If you know you wouldn’t want to participate in it, don’t come.

“Bazaar 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’s not an insult, it’s a …for God.

“But if you say no and would want to make trouble for us because you know the way to the Bishop’s house or anywhere else, you will only meet trouble at the end of it.

“I can’t 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’s being told as a story. The one who’s right then becomes wrong and vice versa.

“Let it not happen again, because if someone tries it again, he will be forced to beg for food with empty plates in the street.

“Anyone that will put us in trouble again, there’s nothing he puts hand on that will progress. You don’t need to be told that God is in our midst here. So if any makes trouble with us, he’s finding God’s trouble.

“If you put your hands in whatever that will happen to me, you will be embarrassed. You may not know the one I’m worshipping but I know him.

“All the banks we have relationships with should come and do something for God in the bazaar. If they don’t come, it means they don’t want our relationship again. Yes, it’s business.

“We thank Fidelity and Zenith banks so far. They have been cooperating. Last year Fidelity bank broke cola with N5 million.

The Prado jeep I drive was given to me by the Zenith bank.”