Founder of Synagogue Church of All Nations, Temitope Balogun Joshua has claimed he told Goodluck Jonathan, that he would lose last week’s presidential election.
The popular televangelist on Sunday said he sent the message to the President several weeks before the election.
“I want to use this moment to congratulate Nigerians in our midst here,” Prophet Joshua began in a message to his multi-national congregation, televised live via his Christian network Emmanuel TV.
Calling
attention to his prediction a week to the election that the dark cloud
he saw covering Nigeria was lifting, he said that a bloody ‘war’ would
have ensued if not for the prompt concession of power by President
Jonathan.
“Look, Nigeria wanted change –
everyone was yearning for change. An attempt to stop change leads to
war, to a bloodbath… If Nigeria knows what we have overcome, we would
dance,” Mr. Joshua said.
He praised President Jonathan’s tenure insisting that he had served his nation well despite the immense security challenges.
“I
really want to salute President Jonathan. The President has served; he
has done his best. It was just the season of crisis – and unfortunately
he found himself at the lead in the season of crisis ,” he said.
The cleric said ‘God’ spoke to him with a message for President Jonathan several weeks before the general elections.
He said God told him -“This
message should be delivered to your president, that whatever the
outcome of this election, his regime has come to an end. He should
accept to save the lives of millions,” he told the congregation.
Prophet
Joshua claimed he called President Jonathan by phone, adding that he
had previously shared with him many revelations about Nigeria which
eventually came to pass.
Insisting the seriousness
of the revelation was such that it had to be relayed personally so as
not affect votes, Joshua said the outgoing president promptly sent a
close aide to meet the cleric.
After the
presidential aide had worshipped at his church during a Sunday service,
Mr. Joshua said he met him and relayed the revelation that Mr.
Jonathan’s regime had come to an end. “Soft landing – that is the language I sent to the president,” he told attendees.
The
prophet described President Jonathan as a man who ‘has a heart for
God’, revealing that he even spoke with the Nigerian president shortly
before his historic concession call to President-elect Mr. Buhari.
“I
said to him, ‘Your Excellency – all you need to say is thank You,
Jesus, even when it seems there is nothing to be thankful for. He said,
‘Thank you, man of God’. Before I knew it, I saw the news on CNN that he
had congratulated his opponent ,” he said.
He
prayed that people from the ‘South-South’ region in Nigeria where
President Jonathan hails from would understand that ‘their son has
become a hero’, adding that his actions prove the region is after a
united Nigeria.
Mr. Joshua reminded his
congregants that he had given a similar message in 2010 to Laurent
Gbagbo, the former President of Ivory Coast.
“In a vision, I saw crisis – thousands of people being killed in Ivory Coast – just because of the outcome of the election,” he said to congregants.
After
sending the message across to the then Ivorian leader, a delegation of
government figures and presidential aides was dispatched to Nigeria.
“I
told them that whatever the outcome of the election – whether the
popular or unpopular voice of people – our President should concede. His
regime has come to an end,” Joshua reminisced.
According
to the cleric, Mr. Gbagbo had personally called him regarding the
prediction, looking for an avenue to avert it and inviting him to Ivory
Coast. Joshua insisted that nothing more could be done.
When
Mr. Gbagbo refused to concede power to Alassane Ouattara in the
controversial 2010 elections, a bloody onslaught ensued leading to the
deaths of thousands and his eventual incarceration and public disgrace.
Mr.
Joshua also told his faithful how he had personally warned MKO Abiola
that God was not backing his presidency in the ill-fated Nigerian
elections of 1993 despite overwhelming public support in his favour.
He
further recalled how, as a young man, he met the former Governor of
Lagos State, Lateef Jakande, and told him that his beloved daughter was
close to the grave. Both revelations came to pass, he said.
The cleric added that his prophetic ministry is the reason he does not take sides in politics. “That
is why I don’t belong to any party. All the parties are my own. I love
everyone. If I belong to this party and the message of God is now
against that party, how will I present it – when no one knows the mind
of God? It is better I am free to deliver God’s message.”
He
said that material gain was not his mission and that no exchange of
money can be involved when it comes to spiritual matters such as
prophecy.
“I am a material to be used that
will not cost you any money. I am afraid to collect money from you
because if I collect it, it will affect the gift and grace of God in my
life.”
Mr. Joshua prayed for the new government to be led by the All Progressives Congress.
“Join me to pray for the new government, headed by President-Elect
Buhari. Ask God to give our President a hearing heart – a heart that
will listen to what the public is saying and want to know God’s
opinion,” he said.
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