By OWOYOKUN DOLAPO
Ever since the date of the 2019 elections of Nigeria have been declared, different people of different caliber have been giving their own verdicts as to what the outcome of the election will be like, particularly as regards the office of the Presidency. This article seeks to articulate the predictions from the religious sect of the country and leave it up to the readers to judge the predictions.
In the whole charade of predictions of 2019 elections, religious leaders in Nigeria have not failed to make their own predictions of the outcome of 2019 elections. Apostle Jeremiah Adeyeye, General Overseer of Clear Revelation Ministry, Ibadan, has predicted that 2019 elections may not hold if the government fails to nip in the bud killings by herdsmen, kidnapping, militancy, insurgency and other menaces. It is reported that this man of God had made a series of predictions that came to pass. They included the death of General Sanni Abacha, impeachment of Senator Rashidi Ladoja as Governor of Oyo state in 2006 and Ayodele Fayose in Ekiti in 2005, amongst few other accurate predictions. Thus, this predictor has two reasons weight could be attached to his predictions – he is a man of God and he has a history of very accurate predictions.
South African based Nigerian Prophet and General Overseer of the Freedom for all Nation Outreach, Samuel Akinbose, has also made a series of predictions regarding the 2019 elections. He revealed that God showed him in a vision a house loaded with ammunitions in preparation for 2019 elections. He also stated that God made Buhari President because he wanted Nigerians to learn and that the Chosen President by God will be a young person. This prediction happens to coincide with the prediction of the Anglican Bishop of Enugu Ecclesiastical Province and Bishop of Enugu Diocese, His Grace, Rev. Emmanuel Chukwuma, that President Muhammadu Buhari has signed to leave office in 2019 by signing the Not-Too-Young-To-Run Bill in May. Our second predictor, Samuel Akinbose, had earlier accurately predicted Zuma’s exit and Mugabe’s disgrace from the seat of power. Thus, for similar reasons as our first predictor, ample weight could be attached to his predictions.
Prophet Onyekachukwu Okolie, founder and General Overseer of Living Abundance (Mount Zion) Deliverance Ministry in Lagos, who accurately predicted that President Muhammadu Buhari will win the 2015 election has prophesied that a Yoruba man will win the 2019 elections.
Bishop Wale Olagunju, the Presiding Bishop of Divine Seed of God Chapel Ministries, has predicted that presidential aspirant on the PDP platform, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, will defeat President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019. Bishop Olagunju who had earlier claimed in his 2018 prophecy that God told him that former President Olusegun Obasanjo would not only forgive Atiku but that he would also support him in his bid for presidenct, added that notable Nigerians will throw their weights behind the former Vice President in 2019.
These are all notable predictions. And now the question is “What are the odds?” In the end, we can only predict until the day comes for us to exercise our power to decide and put our money where our mouths are.
