President Goodluck Jonathan that he would lose last week’s presidential election.
Mr. Joshua said he sent his message to the
President several weeks before the election.
“I want to use this moment to congratulate Nigerians in our
midst here,” Mr. Joshua began in a message to his multi-national congregation,
televised live via his Christian network Emmanuel TV.
Alluding 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.
Mr. Joshua praised Mr. 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 Mr.
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.
Mr. Joshua claimed he called Mr. 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; Mr. Joshua said Mr.
Jonathan 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.
Mr. Joshua 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,”Mr. Joshua
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.
