Controversial man of God, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, of the Adoration Ministry, Enugu, has publicly apologised for the partisan role the church played during the just concluded 2023 general elections.
The cleric, who during the polls held that a stingy man cannot be the president of Nigeria, tendered the apology in a video, which was from a church service at his ministry in Enugu.
“A stingy man cannot be our president. We are already hungry. We need a generous person. Nigerians are hungry. Are we not hungry?,” Mbaka had said ahead of the disputed 2023 presidential poll.
However, the controversial cleric has now openly apologised to Nigerians, even on behalf of other preachers over the role the church played during the polls, according to a report by The Nation.
Mbaka said: “The world should hear me, I’m using my name as a reverend father, a prophet and a messenger of God to apologise on behalf of the whole men of God; pastors, priests and bishops.
“I’m not worthy to apologise for bishops but I’m apologising, let the mercy of God descend because what we did within this political moment, a lot of indescribable political brouhaha and political jingoism and a lot of atrocities we manifested by burying the power of the sacrament beneath political forces, political huffs and vultures, and they want to ‘vulturise’ the church.
“We turned the church into campaign centres. We turned the church into a place of politicking. We messed up the altar. We defiled the altar of the Most High God.
“We offended God and we started teaching the people in church where to vote and how they will do it.
“Where they drew humans, the church said it’s the Father, the Son and the Holy spirit (the three trinity in one God). Lots of blunders that were made by taking the glory of God and giving it to mortals.
“I’m pleading for the mercy of God. I pray that God will forgive us for we have gotten it wrong this time.”
