About
two weeks after the fiery Enugu Catholic priest, Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka,
stirred the hornet’s nest by predicting doom for the nation should President
Goodluck Jonathan win the February 14 presidential election, another
Enugu-based Prophet, Anthony Nwoko, on Monday foreclosed the possibility of the
presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu
Buhari, winning the election.
Nwoko
who had in 1993 prophesied the end of the military regime of former Military
President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), however added a new dimension to the
entire political scenario predicting that President Goodluck Jonathan of the
ruling Peoples Democratic Party will also not be president after next month’s
election.
The
prophet who had had a running battle with the authorities of the Celestial
Church of Christ (CCC) over the church’s headship however refused to divulge
what would become of the nation if either of the two leading presidential
candidates “would not be president by May 29, noting that God will give the
nation a new direction.
Prophet
Nwoko who had also in 1998 prophesied that late Gen. Sani Abacha, would leave
government of Nigeria in a mysterious way, briefed journalists in Enugu
yesterday on the state of the nation, lamenting that the nation was turning
very ungodly.
“I
had told Babangida in 1993 to leave office and it happened and in 1998, I
prophesied that Abacha would leave office mysteriously, and you saw what
happened,” he said.
Speaking
on the current Jonathan presidency and the prospects of his reelection, Nwoko
said: “In 2010, I told Nigerians that they should not expect much or any
miracle from Jonathan. Now, in this coming election, Jonathan will only serve
as John the Baptist and Buhari has not got any heavenly crown to rule and he
will not rule this country because he hasn’t got that crown.
“Don’t
take my prophesies for granted because I had also told Gen. Abdulsalam
Abubakar(rtd) not to make Olusegun Obasanjo president and I had also warned
Obasanjo not to make late Umaru Yar’Adua president and my advice was not heeded
and you saw what happened,” he noted.
On
what would happen since he has prophesied that the two leading presidential
candidates would not be president after February elections, the 64-year-old
prophet hesitated, saying: “I can see the glory of Nigeria in the Southeast and
I don’t agree with Wole Soyinka that Jonathan is Nebucadnezar, Jonathan is a
forerunner to the glory of God.”
Responding
to Mbaka’s New Year message, the prophet said he was not condemning the priest
but “I want to tell him that I can see the glory of God in the South,” an
ominous projection that showed no definite direction for the country in the
event that either of the two giants becomes president as he has prophesied.
The
prophet who claimed to have hailed from Umuahia, Abia State, but had not
stepped into the city in the past 45 years, and remains unmarried at 64, said
the nation still has a glorious future which would materialise only when the
righteous is allowed to preside over the affairs of the nation.
“All
these crises in the country are the products of ungodliness. We have
allowed evil to thrive so much in Nigeria and God has given the leaders ample
opportunities to retrace their steps but now, He has decided to change things
by Himself.“
Before
the eyes of ordinary people, either Jonathan or Buhari will win the election
but in the eyes of God, none of them will preside over the country’s affairs
after this election,” he said.
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