Religious, Ethnic Politics: Nigeria may never be the same again, Nnamani blasts Obi

“He picked out Christian minority areas for his campaigns in Northern and Central Nigeria. His dual opium of tribalism and religious bigotry have made national landing to depart no more.”

An Enugu Catholic Priest, Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka of Adoration Ministry, had publicly apologised for the partisan role the church played during this year’s general election.

He 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 the church where to vote and how they would do it.

“Where they drew humans, the church said it’s the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit (The Trinity). Lots of blunders 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 got it wrong this time.”

Religious, Ethnic Politics: Nigeria may never be the same again, Nnamani blasts Obi

The Nation