Televangelist
and cleric of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Prophet
Temitope Joshua, Sunday, said he told President Goodluck Jonathan, that
he would lose the March 28 presidential election.
Jonathan of the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was defeated by Gen. Muhammadu Buhari
(retd) of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
T.B Joshua said he sent his message to the President 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 congregation, televised live via
his Christian network Emmanuel TV and posted on the social network of
the church.
“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,” Joshua
claimed God told him in a revelation.
Joshua said he called
Jonathan by phone, stressing that he chose to relay it personally so
that it will not affect votes’ pattern or be seen as a campaign for any
of the candidate in the election. He added that he has shared with
President Jonathan many revelations about Nigeria which eventually came
to pass.
Joshua said Jonathan promptly sent a close aide to meet him.
After
the presidential aide had worshipped at his church during a Sunday
service, Joshua said he met him and relayed the revelation that
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 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,”Joshua said.
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,”Joshua said.
Joshua praised 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.
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.
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