Peter Obi Ignores Mbaka, Did Not Issue Any Reply To Him

By Adesina Soyooye

The Media Adviser to Peter Obi, Valentine Obienyem, has distanced the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party from a statement in response to Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka’s unprovoked and ill-advised attack on him.

Mbaka the embarrassingly controversial Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry Enugu, Nigeria, AMEN, had, on Wednesday, while addressing his congregation, launched an attack on Obi.

He called him a stingy man and asked people not to vote for him because of his stinginess.

On Thursday, a purported response surfaced as a response from Obi to Mbaka.

But Obi has distanced himself from the response. He apparently chose to completely ignore Mbaka, leaving him to Nigerians and to his conscience.

The terse statement from Obienyem reads:

“Our attention has  been drawn to  a statement credited to Mr. Peter Obi as his reply to Fr. Ejike Mbaka.

“We wish to state, for the record  that Mr. Peter Obi did not  and is not planning to issue any reply.

“We advise  that any medium trying to publish such  an unsigned letter should clarify its authenticity from Mr. Obi’s Media Office.”

If Obi chose to ignore Mbaka, thousands of people have descended, harshly, on the Priest, including his colleague-Priests.

Obi’s problems with Mbaka began in the run-up to the 2019 elections when Obi was Atiku Abubakar’s Presidential running mate under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

When he went to worship in Mbaka’s Church during the Church’s Bazaar, Mbaka tried to blackmail Obi into donating money to the Church for a project.

Obi did not fall for the blackmail, and instead asked Mbaka to tell him what project so that it would be taken care of.

But Mbaka preferred a donation of physical cash to that. He, thereafter, humiliated Obi in the Church.

When the backlash began, Mbaka was forced to issue a public apology to Obi. The Priest is back to his usual blackmail again in 2022. Obi is not prepared to fall for it.