President Jonathan and his wife are planning to kill me – Father Mbaka

Controversial Enugu-based Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has alleged that President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience, are plotting to kill him over his criticism of his criticism of the president’s administration and his opposition his (Jonathan’s) re-election bid. Mbaka, in a new video which is currently trending on YouTube, made the allegation during a sermon he delivered in his church. Mbaka said,

“President Jonathan and his wife are planning to kill me.” Mbaka whose recent comments on the general elections generated a lot of talk, said Jonathan’s plot to assassinate him showed that the President no longer had the fear of God. He said, “Although I sent a letter about this somewhere but I want to say this to the atmosphere. Let me say to the whole world that President Jonathan and his wife, Patience, are planning to assassinate Father Mbaka. It is a known secret, so whoever they want to use, I don’t know. They may not come themselves. They may use these unemployed people. The same people I am speaking for. I don’t know why people no longer have the fear of God.

“Do they think that killing Father Mbaka will make Jonathan and his wife win the election? Is Mbaka their problem? And a priest asked a question that touched me. He said all this while that Father Mbaka has been supporting Jonathan and his wife, did Buhari and his party make any statement to threatened him?” Mbaka insisted that his criticism of the present administration was a ‘divine mandate’, and made reference to the bible story of when God sent Moses to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go

He compared his New Year message against President Jonathan to Moses’ message to the Egyptian King, Pharaoh. “I am just trying to tell any Pharaoh that is threatening to kill any Moses to remember what happened in Exodus chapter 12. After the Passover, the family of Pharaoh cried. They ended in the middle of the Red Sea,” Mbaka said in the new video. The Catholic priest, however, said despite the threats, he would continue to discharge his duties without fear of anyone.