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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