Foremost Prophet, Primate
Theophilus Oluwasaanu Olabayo, is the Pastor, Founder , Evangelical Church of
Yahweh, located at Arowojobe Estate, Mende Village, Maryland, Lagos State.
In this no-holds-barred interview with Adelowo Oladipo in Lagos, he
reveals his predictions for the New Year. He predicts, among other things, that
the 2015 presidential election may not hold and If the election holds at all,
it may be stalemated. He also predicts that if elections hold, the Peoples
Democratic Party will win the governorship election in Lagos State while the
All Progressives Congress (APC) will retain Rivers, Ogun and Oyo states.
Primate Olabayo also called for prayers against political assassinations in the
New Year. Excerpts:
As the New
Year approaches, can you reveal what have been revealed to you particularly as
the nation prepares for another general elections ?
You see, in this country, many
people do not want to hear the truth. To start with, God has revealed to
me that there may not be elections next year because in 2015, we are going to
witness one of the worst political assassinations in Nigeria. God further
informed me that the South West geo-political zone should be very careful so
that the region would not be thrown into another era of wild, wild west because
I saw political assassinations everywhere. I also saw some people in masks who
were killing people everywhere. Specifically, between now and January, the
country will witness one of the worst eras of bloodshed in its history. And if
at all there will be elections next year in Nigeria, the seat of the president
is not vacant.
Can
you tell us what you mean by saying that the seat of the president is not
vacant?
God has revealed to me that
if at all there is going to be presidential election, it will be inconclusive
just like (the June 12,) that we had during the time of the late Chief MKO
Abiola who flew the flag of the Social Democratic Party under the military
administration of General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida.
What
should we expect with regard to the issues of insecurity and explosions
in the northern parts of the country?
In the New Year, we will never
see Boko Haram again but insurgency will come in another form. We should pray
against religious and ethnic wars in this country. President Jonathan has
surrounded himself with some sycophants who are just telling him lies. The
sycophants have made former President Olusegun Obasanjo the president’s enemy,
forgetting the fact that the president would not have been where he is today
without the assistance and support of Obasanjo. President
Jonathan should bear it in mind that these people that are destroying
Obasanjo would destroy him one day. I think what should be done if he plans for
peace in the remaining days left for him in office as the number one citizen is
to work assiduously in the overall interest of all Nigerians so that the
poverty level in the country can be reduced drastically. I do not know
the type of economic policy he is implementing that things are getting worse on
a daily basis among the general populace, yet they keep saying that the economy
is improving. I have never seen a situation where the economy is improving,
yet the standard of living of the citizens is deteriorating everyday.
Everywhere you go in this country, cases of armed robbery, kidnapping and other
criminal activities are on the increase. What I am seeing is not a
military incursion into the body polity, but the poor will take on the rich, it
is a revolution that I am seeing in no distance future.
Are these
to suggest that the statement attributed to the United States of America that
the country may disintegrate by 2015 may come to pass?
No, the country will not
disintegrate because specifically, the United States had earlier
said that in 2015, there would be no Nigeria and ironically, some
Nigerian politicians have been working towards it. By the special grace of God,
Nigeria will not disintegrate but by the special grace of God, a man of destiny
will take over the reins of governance and most corrupt people who have been
parading themselves and masquerading as Nigerian leaders, if they are not dead,
will be jailed. And those who have been celebrating that they have money and
are wealthy at the expense of the poor masses will have to be very careful
because God will soon intervene in the affairs of Nigeria.
Do you
foresee the All Progressives Congress defeating the Peoples Democratic
Party in the forthcoming general election and forming the government at
the centre, especially with the emergence of former Head of State, General
Muhammadu Buhari, as APC’s presidential standard-bearer?
Whether they call
themselves APC or Codeine, they are all the same. I have told you that
there may not be election next year and if there is going to be an election,
God told me that they are going to rig the election and this will cause an
upheaval and the results of the election will not be declared and if the result
is declared, the winners of the election will not govern. But my advice to our
politicians is that they should let the president go peacefully and retire to
his village .Nigerians need to avoid these people who are leaving one party to
the other and claiming to form a coalition with candidates who have no base in
their towns and villages. These opportunists are the worst
enemies of this country. We have to avoid them so that they do not plunge
this country into chaos . Recently, the Borno State governor raised an alarm
that about three quarter of the state has been taken over by Boko Haram, yet
the military authorities say they are having the upper hand over the
insurgents. Then it is either the governor or the military hierarchy is lying.
We now have a situation, where if anybody wants to make money off Nigeria, just
tell the president you can crush Boko Haram or you tell him Boko Haram will
soon become history.
As a
prophet, do you foresee an end to Boko Haram insugency in 2015?
In future, a man of destiny
will take over power at the centre in this country and Boko Haram will be
over. God will raise a leader for this country who will clear the mess. He will
come in a way that nobody can explain. The souls of the innocent people who
have been killed by evil people who we see as leaders in this country are
standing together to form an army. When they will strike and take over Nigeria,
only God can tell. They killed the bodies of the innocent and not their
spirits. God is preparing some leaders who will rule this country, they will
emerge in three to five years’ time and turn the country into a paradise on
earth.
The
international scene will be of interest to Nigerians as well. Anything of
interest or surprise in 2015?
Well, terrorism will take over
the world and the economy of superpowers including the United States of America
will suffer in the New Year. Crises in that country will render President
Barack Obama unpopular. Economically, things will be bad in the
entire world. I see disaster, blood everywhere. What has never happened
before will start coming up as people will be killing their children and eating
one another as a result of starvation.
Nigerians
enter successive New Years with hope. What is the fate of the common man with
the economic crisis in the country especially with the fall in prices of crude
oil?
The drop in the price of crude
oil at the international market is because God just wants to teach
us a lesson that Nigeria should not rely on crude oil again as a source of
revenue. God will produce other things that are very strong even as crude oil
to an extent that this economic crisis created by the drastic drop in the
prices of crude oil will turn out to be a blessing and it will be well with
Nigerians. Also, God will start raising good leaders and something good will
start happening to us as a nation. Nigeria is presently facing economic
hardship as a result of the fact that God wanted to tell our leaders and the
citizens that we should not depend on crude oil exportation alone for the
development of this country and we have made oil our god, that was why we could
not use the oil revenue very well to our own advantage. That is why God is not
happy with us as a people.
What is
the situation likely to be in other African countries?
There is going to be some change
of governments in some African countries in the New Year and Ghana is going to
witness a lot of problems because the opposition will rise against the current
government in that country. The sitting government will have a lot of problems
economically and as a result, they will not find it easy. And between
January and March 2015, there will be a lot of plane crashes everywhere.
Hijacking of planes is going to be on the increase and after those crises,
things will start getting better. There will be a lot of terror activities
everywhere and mysterious things that had never happened before will start
happening all over the world. People will just be missing anyhow, that is why
people will turn to God.
And I see Jihad in Nigeria, I see
people leaving the northern part of the country in droves for their homelands .
As a result of this, ethnic problems should be avoided in Nigeria. It is either
the Igbo facing the Hausa or the Yoruba. I just see them leaving the
northern part of the country for their different places of origins and
destinations. I saw anarchy in the land. But Nigeria will remain as one, there
would have been seven years of war but God has decreed there would be no
war in Nigeria again. God will intervene in the affairs of Nigeria and the
military will be reorganised .
What can
we do to avert the impending problems that you talked about?
That is why President Goodluck
Jonathan must warn his kitchen cabinet, especially those in the inner circles
in his government who are always spoiling for war against perceived enemies of
the government and against past leaders of the country, to stop it so that
there can be peace in the land .
The president should be seen to
be fighting corruption headlong, otherwise corruption and insecurity will bring
down his government. I foresee that as we are moving towards another election
in the country, there is going to be upheaval. In order to avert the impending
problems in the country, Muslims should observe fasting and prayers on
the first Friday of the year while Christians should also fast and pray for
peace to reign in the country on the first Sunday of the year so that
peace can be restored in Nigeria. And if Nigerians still want the forthcoming
general elections to hold, they have to pray very well so that there may not be
trouble as a result of stalemated election. The chairman of Independent
National Electoral Commission should be warned not to spoil his name and those
of his officials in sensitive positions because if they do a thorough
job, there may not be crisis. But if they are not careful, the election
may be rigged just like what happened in Zimbabwe.
Also, the All Progressives
Congress will still reclaim Ekiti State because many secrets would be unfolded
about the government of the day in that state. Then in Lagos,
Nigerians, especially the Yoruba, must be prayerful because that is where
trouble may start in the New Year. APC is going to have problems concerning the
party’s governorship candidate. PDP candidate, Jimi Agbaje, will have more
support of the people and this is what will cause uproar in some circles if at
all there is going to be elections. I say it again that if there is going to be
election, Jimi Agbaje will have the upper hand because the candidate that should
have won the election for APC was not given the chance to be presented as the
party’s governorship candidate in Lagos state. APC should have presented Ganiyu
Solomon, he was God’s anointed candidate for the party. This is the man God has
chosen but the powers- that- be in the party did not allow him . That is why I
said people do not listen to the voice of God again in this country. Rather,
they are looking for those who would cover them and their mistakes up.
In politics, Nigerians should not
dwell on religious considerations before they choose their leaders. Rather,
they should vote for those who can serve them well. The people who were said to
be clamouring for Christian governor in Lagos State may not even be Christians
at all but church goers. They may not even be known in Christian circles
because some of them are pagans.
If they were talking about
Christian governor in a very important state like Lagos, what is the population
of regular Christian voters in that state that vote during election periods? We
should stop the habit of imposition of candidates for elections because of
personal interests if we want democracy to thrive. A party leader, Bola
Ahmed Tinubu, should stop this idea of imposition of candidates in APC, that is
what is killing the party and he has to watch his health in the New Year.
What role
is reserved for the traditional institution and other leaders in Yoruba land in
next year’s election so that the zone would not be turned into a battle ground
?
I think it would be better if
paramount rulers like the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade; the Awujale
of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona and the Osile of Oke –Ona Egba, Oba Adedapo
Tejuosho, among other numerous important traditional rulers in Yorubaland,
should call for a meeting of traditional rulers to seek peace in
their domains so that there would be no wild, wild West again. In fact, all
well-meaning Yoruba sons and daughters should come together to seek the
peace of the land. Most of our leaders need prayers to survive 2015.
Nigeria’s First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, needs prayers so that she would
not be rushed to the hospital again in the New Year. I see some traditional
rulers passing away.
Looking
into the banking sector and the capital market, do you foresee a turnaround
in those sectors in 2015?
There is going to be problems in
most banks, especially in a first generation bank and in two new generation
banks because I see their executives being changed. I see a lot of secrets
being exposed and the managing directors of these banks facing problems, while
the new Central Bank governor needs to be watchful and pray. And there is going
to be multiple bomb blasts in Kano State, Maiduguri, Borno State capital , in
Adamawa and even in Kaduna State. We also need to pray for the Emir of
Kano.
Another
area of concern to Nigerians is the education sector. Will we get it right?
In the nation’s higher
institutions, there is going to be crisis because there is going to be students
uprising against some unpopular policies of the government as well as increase
in their tuition fees . I see students burning tyres and other items on the
streets including some public and private properties everywhere in the
course of the new year as most of the authorities of the tertiary institutions
would hike their school fees.
What should
Nigerians expect from the legislative arm of government both at the state and
National Assemblies in the New Year?
To start with, I saw that most of
the senators would not even return to their seats in the hallowed chambers
because some of them would have problems as a result of what they had dabbled
into. Political assassinations will be so rampant because people will be
sponsoring assassins to eliminate their opponents. Some state governors
and National Assembly members will be after one another’s lives. That is
why 2015 is a year of blood. I saw blood flowing ceaselessly in the land.
The political space is not going to augur well in the year we are
going into, hence we need a lot of prayers to navigate the year. Also, there is
going to be a lot of fire and flood disasters in most of the states of
the federation. And some government houses will be set ablaze. I see Kano,
Borno, Kaduna and Gombe states in turmoil and their governors must be very
watchful so that enemies would not take over their government houses.
Similarly, there will be bombings in Enugu and Rivers states. Then the governor
of Anambra State needs to be very prayerful so that the people would not cause
trouble between him and former governor Peter Obi so that Obi’s people in PDP
would not do everything possible to take over Anambra state in 2015. These are
the problem areas. Imo State too is another problem area but in the state
PDP will do everything possible to take over the state but people will resist
it.
I see many ministers of God being
killed but if they don’t want to endanger their lives, they should not dabble
into politics. Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party is going to
have a lot of problems because no matter what they do, APC will still win Ogun
State. Oyo State will still remain under APC but in Lagos State, APC is
going to have problems while there is also going to be problems in Ondo State
because PDP will like to rig the election and the people will resist it. Also
in many states of the federation, they are going to have political problems. In
Rivers State, anybody supported by Governor Rotimi Amaechi will rule the state
in the next dispensation, although PDP will come with a very strong force but
they will fail. Above all. it is going to be well with the people that fear the
Lord while those that are poor will rejoice because very soon, God will
elevate them. Also, journalists in the country should be very careful in
the New Year so that some of them would not be killed.
What is likely to be the result if the leaders fail to
listen to you or heed your advice?
Well, it is left to them to hear the voice of the Lord and take
action while they are also free not to heed the honest advice from the throne
of mercy. This was the same way I warned the late Chief MKO Abiola not to
participate in the 1993 general elections and he never listened. But we all
know how he ended his life, the same thing I warned the late former Head of
State, General Sani Abacha, he also failed to listen and I also told the
late former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation,
Chief Bola Ige, not to take a ministerial appointment from Chief Olusegun
Obasanjo’s government at the inception of this democratic experience.
Specifically, I told him that he was going to be rubbished, but he insisted on
taking the appointment, saying he would resign his appointment before he
was rubbished and I told him that before he resigned, they would kill him. And
before President Jonathan got there, some people said he would not get there, I
was the one who said he would get there and that some enemies of the country
would make the country almost ungovernable for him and it has happened as
predicted .
When he got there, some people hijacked his government and he was
made a hostage in power and he isn’t bothered to correct the situation. He
should not try his luck any longer. Some of those surrounding him are enemies
of the country and when the chips are down, he would not see them again.
The Itsekiris, Urohobos and the Ijaws should avoid trouble and also the
people of the Niger Delta region should avoid trouble. Some leaders of the
geo-political zone must be careful so that they can survive in the year.
Also, Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has to be careful because whatever
be the case, the state is going to be a boiling point in the year because the
election would be rigged in favour of a particular party and there will
be anarchy in Edo State. Some of our leaders would be poisoned and many
politicians would not survive 2015. Nigerians also have to be careful with
their security, especially those travelling by night, because I see a lot of
accidents on the road everywhere.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is an elder statesman, he should
mellow down because Jonathan is his son. The two leaders should be
reconciled by their mutual friends and they should not listen to those who want
to cause disaffection between the two leaders so that this country
can move forward.
Also, the seat of the Senate President is very hot, therefore, Senator
David Mark has to be very careful so that he would not lose his relevance
because I see him sitting on a keg of gum powder. Again, President Jonathan
should be very careful about how he handles the outcome of the 2015
presidential election.
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