Again, Mbaka Floors Baal And Its Prophets

As I said, there is no love lost between Mbaka and PDP members because most often, his predictions have successfully sawed through the party’s arrogance and petulant feeling of invincibility. They therefore spare no insults in addressing his predictions. They are not alone in insulting Mbaka.. CAN, Christian Association of Nigeria, which has so often pandered to the whims and idiosyncrasies of the PDP has joined in the fray and partakes in the plot to take down this messenger of God.

Fr. Mbaka’s stint as a leaf reader of Nigerian politics (let me not call it prophecy) started during the earlier parts of this democratic dispensation when he came out boldly to say that then Governor of Anambra State, Chinwoke Mbadinuju would not be re-elected during the 2003 election. With the awesome influence incumbent office holders wield then over their re-election prospects, this seemed over-reaching of this priest. But lo and behold, Mbadinuju was the only governor then that lost his party’s nomination for re-election and he lost the governorship of Anambra State subsequently as his effort to run under another party failed.

Next, Fr. Mbaka predicted that then Imo State Governor, Ikedi Ohakim would not be re-elected Governor of Imo State in the 2011 Imo governorship contest. This seemed audacious because by then, Ohakim had defected from his party to the PDP which wielded immense power over the country’s electoral process as the ruling party. With his incumbency power, it seemed Mbaka had struck his end in political prophecies but come April 2011, Ohakim was bested by Rochas Okorocha in the gritty contest for Imo Governorship.

Nigerians woke up on a sultry new year day in 2015 with Fr. Mbaka delivering what seemed like a tornado when he told tens of thousands of congregants in his Adoration Ministry Enugu that then incumbent Goodluck Jonathan would lose the 2015 presidential election to now incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari. For those who have grown to hate Mbaka’s scruples, this looked like a death knell to his impudence in correctly predicting the outcome of elections. All hell was let loose as all manners of politicians, religious leaders, regional interests, ethnic groups and sundry interests who feathered their nests in the Jonathan presidency and the PDP came out smoking and took to arms against this fiery priest. All manners of scurrilous umbrage were unleashed against him. All manners of insults and counter-predictions were hurled at the public space to counter Mbaka. What more, Mbaka seemed to be riding against an entrenched interest that has never seen an incumbent President lose re-election in the history of Nigeria. By then, there was no prophecy or prediction aligning with his own queer prediction that an incumbent with the treasury and all apparatchiks of power under his armpit will lose to an opposition candidate that had lost same election three times before then. But in the midst of this cacophony of tirades, Mbaka was to shell out defiantly some weeks later to re-inforce his prediction so the stage was set for his demystification, which those who railed against him promised.

A shell-shocked nation was struck by awe when Buhari comprehensively defeated an incumbent Jonathan in the 2015 election, marking the first time an incumbent president lost to an opposition candidate in Nigeria. That singular act of history was to raise the respect, awe and reckoning of Mbaka among Nigerians and marked a humiliation to the legion of prophets and seers sponsored to counter him. While his reputation and profile soared, those of the prophets of Baal plunged and there was no doubt that even as they bit their fingers in shock, they secretly feared Mbaka.

In November 2018, Fr. Mbaka raised dusts again when he told Peter Obi, then Vice Presidential Candidate to PDP’s Atiku that he and Atiku will end up in shame with their ambition to win the 2019 presidential election. Predictably, PDP war farers, sponsored seers and interests took up arms against Mbaka but come February 2019, Obi and Atiku were humiliated by Buhari in the presidential contest. That marked the fourth time Mbaka was hitting the bull’s eye in political prediction; to the chagrin of the chariots and horses of Pharaoh who prayed fervently for him to hit blank so they would have the chance to scoff him.

But perhaps the most audacious and trickiest prediction of Fr Mbaka was the one he delivered in his New Year Adoration service of January 2, this year when he said thus;

“Many things are going to happen in Nigeria this 2020 that will shock countrymen and countrywomen, but all would be to God’s glory.

“In spite of all the hard time that would happen this 2020, there is hope.

“In Imo State, there is hope. Hope, hope, hope … hope in Imo State!

“Imo people have suffered but God is raising a new hope that would be an agent of salvation for them.

“He’s coming with a new flag to restore the dignity of that noble land. A new leadership that will break barriers and there would be joy in the land of Imo.

“Lift your candles as I bless Hope Uzodinma; and I empower him to, spiritually, to take over. How I do not know.

“Please, if you heard that there would be a new government in Imo and you don’t like the message; if I say, Hope, you can say hopeless but do not fight me.

“I am saying this in respect of those who may want to come after me because of the message. If you do that, the God of Moses, Elijah and Elisha will deal with you. I am only a messenger of God”.

This was enough to set the roof on fire. PDP members, supporters, horses and men, commissioned religious leaders, including the ubiquitous Christian Association of Nigeria with its thinly disguised subservience to PDP interests and all manners of angry political militants rolled out the drums of war against Mbaka. They railed, they swore, they abused, they insulted, they threatened and vowed that this fiery priest has clearly crossed the bounds and that he must fail. I said this prediction was tricky because Hope Uzodimma he was predicting to unseat the incumbent Emeka Ihedioha was announced by INEC to have come a distant fourth in the 2019 governorship election. It seemed impossible that by whatever means, he would leap-frog three other candidates to get the governorship. Again by the time the prodiction came, Uzodimma, like the second and third candidates in the election, had lost both at the state elections tribunal and the Appeal Court (though he got a minority Appeal Court judgment). Again, he was up against an incumbent that had been in power for seven months so it seemed remote that Mbaka’s prediction would score this time around and all the prophets of Baal gathered in great numbers and mobilized to humiliate him in the obvious case that he failed this fifth time.

But on Tuesday, 14 January 2020, two weeks after Fr Mbaka’s latest prophecy, the Supreme Court delivered a unanimous ruling that not only affirmed Mbaka’s prediction but led to the declaration of Hope Uzodimma as Governor of Imo State. That was too much and was so strong to become an Mbaka victory. That was the ultimate climax of Fr. Mbaka’s astuteness and a depressing humiliation to the forces that gathered and readied for his humiliation. Nigerians didn’t miss that opportunity to celebrate Mbaka and scorn his worsted traducers as the airwaves went viral with how Mbaka has triumphed once again and his enemies emphatically vanquished. It was too much to bear for the prophets of Baal and their worshipers. To be made to kiss the humiliating dust at the feet of this priest again?

Fr Mbaka and his triumphs remind of the experience Elijah the Prophet had with the prophets of Baal commissioned by Jezebel to bring him down. Elijah found a permanent counter to his resolve to deliver the messages of God to Ahab and Jezebel in the unrelenting efforts of Jezebel to mobilize the prophets of Baal to humiliate him at every turn. But each time they tried, they failed woefully. That exactly is the same fate with Mbaka. He had triumphed emphatically over all efforts by those that were handed the shorter ends of the stick by his predictions and this had bolstered his profile tremendously. But the prophets of Baal and their patrons are unrelenting. Each time they kiss the dust, they manage to recover and with fear and trembling, expect the next prediction from Mbaka, unleash their counter0prophecies, insults and threats and eventually get humiliated. It does not matter to them that they fail each time they are commissioned by their distressed patrons to go after Mbaka in the same way that Baal’s prophets never got tired of plotting against Elijah.

One good thing about this youthful priest is that he understands these Baals’ prophets very well. He suffers their frustrations and anger gladly and as such, he has not refrained from shelling our boldly and fearlessly any time he gets a message to deliver. He knows his traducers and the whole compliment of Baal’s prophets fear him so greatly even as they try to mask their fears and frustrations with insults and threats. This is why he always comes out to reinforce his messages anytime the prophets of Baal eat their gall over his predictions. He knows their weak states of minds which is why he never retreats to his shell any time the anger of Baal, its prophets and worshippers run over as a result of his predictions. He strokes their frustration with pleasure and has lived to watch as the legion of Baal’s prophets, worshippers and their sponsors kiss the dust humiliatingly over and over at his feet. Fr. Mbaka knows that as the prophets of Baal ranged against Elijah never vanquished him, the distressed prophets of Baal who sweat and drool each time he releases his message are powerless, frustrated legions that can never stop him from sending the messages he is always given to send.