If there is an award for shamelessness among clerics, arguably Rev. Fr. Camillus Ejike Mbaka would win it with a wide margin. His documented conducts have not only exposed the widespread rot among the clergy in Nigeria, but also revealed the gullibility of religious followers. The recent revelation by Buhari’s lying media architecture lead by Lia Mohammed and Garba Shehu is another inglorious chapter in Mbaka’s action filled ministry and ministration. Buhari’s aides have accused Mbaka of requesting for contracts as a reward for supporting the former military dictator in the 2015 and 2019 presidential election. As much as the aides are paid liars who could lie against their parents, their story is in line with Mbaka’s history of donation for positive prophesy.

Observers of Mbaka will remember how he tried to coax former Anambra State governor Peter Obi to donate at a bazaar of his Adoration Ministry, but Obi stood his ground, making Mbaka to prophesy that the former governor who was running mate of Atiku Abubakar in the 2019 president election would not be elected. This occurrence is a common phenomenon in today’s Nigeria. Religious leaders from the most trusted to the untrusted sell their piousness for fame and fortune. This shamelessness is widespread among all religion in Nigeria. Muslim clerics are fanatically ready to support or work against any politician who is contesting knowing fully well their unsuitability to lead because of their religion.

The widespread destruction of lives and properties in northern Nigeria has not cured the blindness, dumbness, and deafness of Islamic worshippers. The same can also be said about Catholic faithfuls who still flock to Mbaka’s Adoration Ministry’s ministration. The state of poverty in the land makes these followers to be easy prey for these clerics who have perfected their act of exploitation of vulnerable groups like widows, single women, and ill-advised men. Mbaka and other religious conmen who have lost their ways will continue to flourish because worshipper lack personal relationship with God. As we move towards reclaiming or redefining Nigeria, we must be weary of religious leaders and their chosen candidates. All the candidates that will present themselves for any election have enough past and present for us to predict their future without the prophesies of clerics like Father Mbaka.