The Catholic church has banned Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministries Enugu, Rev. Fr Ejike Mbaka, from commenting on partisan politics.
In a letter to Mbaka dated June 3, Bishop of Enugu diocese, Callistus Onaga, also converted the adoration ministry to chaplaincy.
Unlike in the past where Mbaka solely oversees the activities of the ministry as its spiritual director, making it chaplaincy brings it under the control of the Enugu diocese and gives the bishop the power to appoint a chaplain to oversee its operations.
Although the bishop said Mbaka still leads the chaplaincy, he added that he (bishop) can appoint any ministerial officer “to assist the chaplains to oversee the pastoral activities of the ministry.”
There shall be no partisan politics either by way of active engagement or by prophetic naming of candidates for position of power,” he said.
