Nigerian evangelist Ebuka Obi has become an overnight sensation for his incendiary claims that tie the scandal of Baltasar Engonga, Equatorial Guinea’s financial chief, to dark spiritual forces. Engonga, presently under probe for corruption, had made headlines after hundreds of tapes, which were alleged to be documented encounters with more than 300 women, were found on his personal device.
Obi, who reacted to the incident after being briefed, said Engonga’s action may have an underlining occult practice. He cited a case he handled some time back, where a man claimed that he needed different women every month, as was stated in his spiritual agreement. Obi said the action of Engonga could equally be traced to involvement in the cult or a ritual cycle associated with power.
Although the Engonga scandal has largely been written off as the latest case of corrupt elites, Obi’s spiritual angle does appear to have touched a nerve in raising new questions about mystical links between power and occultism in high places. And as more details continue to unfold, social media remains equally entranced by the scandal and the preacher’s chilling theory.
