The
Catholic Church on Monday clarified the recent transfer of Father Ejike
Mbaka, saying the controversial priest was merely being sent to where
he would be more useful to the church.
In an exclusive interview with PREMIUM
TIMES Monday, the Secretary-General of the Catholic Secretariat of
Nigeria, Reverend Father Ralph Madu said transfer of priests within the
catholic church is a “normal church procedure.”
“Mbaka’s own is not an exception,” Mr.
Madu said. “The Bishop has the right to post any priest wherever he
feels his service would be more useful to the church.”
The priest, who is as fiery as he is
controversial, had described his re-posting by the church as a
“calculated move” to make him suffer.
In the run-up to last year’s
presidential election, Mr. Mbaka had told a gathering of thousands of
catholic faithfuls at his Adoration Prayer Ground ministry to vote out
then president, Goodluck Jonathan.
The priest, renowned for his blunt
sermons, has a huge followership in South East Nigeria, where thousands
of Catholics throng to his prayer ground for healing and miracles.
But following his recent transfer to a
new parish, speculations were rife that his being moved to another
parish was punishment for his unalloyed support of a Muslim candidate,
President Muhammadu Buhari, over his Christian predecessor, Mr. Jonathan
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