*How he warned Jacob Zuma against corruption charges
*His warnings to Goodluck Jonathan, Segun Mimiko that they ignored
*What he says about Buhari’s 2019
By Kemi Kasumu, General Editor
He said once he does this, the sky will be his limit as, according to the Ikere-Ekiti born INRI founder, Fayemi will win the governorship election. That is another conditional prediction predicated on the ability of Fayemi to do the right thing by working on the Ekiti State grassroots and that to do this he needs to reconcile and secure the genuine cooperation and support of his co-contestants for the ticket. On PDP, he said, “I said it since 2015 that PDP will no longer win election in this country. What election has been conducted that they have won? They are like that because they failed to do the right thing.” He continued, “There is a spell on that name, PDP, and that is the reason they have to change their name.”
Primate Elijah Babatunde Ayodele, JP, is one of Nigeria’s members of the Lord’s Vineyard who, at no time to the knowledge of this reporter, has had his fingers burnt in the kind of hot-pot the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has placed itself. Whereas the CAN’s direction is not clear as to whether it is an agitational, ethnic or political pressure group as against the religious association it is supposed to be particularly focused to protect the rights and interest of Christians without infringing on the rights of others, Primate Ayodele has taken the lead with the likes of T. B. Joshua in ensuring programmes which bring Nigerians together in unity and love such as his empowerment for the widows, youths and the less privilege without prejudice to their backgrounds.
Failure of CAN to do this is part of the reasons the Founder and Head of INRI Spiritual and Evangelical Church, Oke Afa, Isolo, Lagos has always, unpretentiously, distanced himself from it. He believes CAN should be seen more as protecting the interest of Christians without causing more troubles for them especially now that it is more politicizational than religionisational that the Christian Association has been.
Recall the complaint of Primate Ayodele during the administration of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan when, according to him, under Ayo Oritsejafor, its President at that time, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) functioned more like government’s contractor supplying weapons thereby dragging the integrity of the Nigerian Christian Community in the mud, and when it invariably became an all-rounder adviser to the administration who determined what the then President did on security, religion, ethnicity and politics. Ayodele, who however refused to declare interest for CAN presidency, warned in many of his interviews published at that time by Vanguard that the trends and perspectives by which Oritsejafor was taking CAN would have consequences. Here it is today as it is enmeshed in all kind of controversies ranging from being in conflict with government because the man there is Muslim or Hausa/Fulani, to allegations of corruption to the tune of N100 million at one side and N25 million on the side and more. That is one and Primate Ayodele, because of his distancing from CAN, is not part of those who share from the image problem being suffered by CAN.
The other aspect of Ayodele’s clarity of prophethood is that since 2013 he had predicted saying God revealed to him that it was time for the stars of Jonathan’s reign to dim and was emphatic about the fact that he would not win the 2015 presidential election.
Ayodele’s style of prediction occurs in two ways, conditional and unconditional. For instance, where he said, “If PDP fails to seek the face of the Lord and does not begin to do things rightly, it will doom forever.” The PDP, Nigeria’s one time ruling and muchmouthed Africa’s biggest party, continues to fail the test of time and continues to therefore wallow in the very troubled waters of its own pool.
The PDP’s message by the prophet was unlike the Jonathan’s own message that was unconditional, that is had no option of aversion, where he explicitly said, “Jonathan will not win 2015”.
In the case of President Muhammadu Buhari, who Ayodele said was the one to win the 2015 election even much more earlier in 2013 than Father Mbaka’s prediction of same in December 2014, the Servant of the Most High God in recent times has been locked in a tough controversial but conditional prediction of loss which he said can be averted if President Buhari does the right thing seeking the face of the Lord and taking bold steps against the killers and destabilisers, who are causing troubles in parts of the country. Ayodele believes that the killings, if not handled with the boldness that it requires, are capable of affecting the chances of the President in the 2019 election.
His talk about Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki proving his own strength at presidential contest probably was not a prediction against earlier one that Buhari will win the 2019 election, if APC the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) picks him as its candidate, but a prophetic advice to avert the kind of situation that was likely going to greet the effort of the President thereby frustrating his chances of making it into the second term.
Like the oracle’s divination said to be coming to fruition at very fast speed, Ayodele’s prediction started coming to past in all of the challenges of bloodletting, economic sabotage and obvious destabilization now being revealed to be efforts of forces working against the Buhari’s chances of winning election in 2019.
“I am not saying Buhari will not win the 2019 but if he contests, Nigeria will sink,” he said, adding that “except he takes some steps. Buhari is good and well intentioned as leader but his effort will be so sabotaged that even those working with him to make Nigeria better and greater will not be spared” as he said, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman, Mallam Ibrahim Magu, will not be appreciated much as he would try in giving a facelift to the anti-corruption fight of the government.
Ayodele, who had said all of these, which have already come to past, since 2016, also said at that same time that the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai, should be watchful and prayerful so that in his course of duty he would not face serious challenges. What those challenges meant by that prediction contained in the annual book, “Warnings to the Nations” revealed since 2016 was not clear to the reporter but what is clear by now is that General Buratai like EFCC’s Magu, if he is asked, will be in better position to tell his own stories of the number of challenges he has faced which many had described as attempts by those opposed to the success stories of President Buhari, on whose delegated authorities the Chief of Army Staff operates, to materialize.
Ayodele, who warned the then Governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, against decamping from Labour Party (LP) to PDP if he wanted to retain his relevance in Ondo State and, by extension, Nigerian politics and whose such divine warning was ignored by Mimiko and for which reason the now former governor fell from grace to grass politically, said Buhari’s second time was dicey as a result of the challenges as earlier stated.
But, he said, if the APC picks Buhari as their 2019 presidential candidate he will win, although he has not pretended in his advice of allowing Saraki to also try his own best at the Presidency.
Primate Ayodele’s predictions are not a child play. He predicted that Jacob Zuma of South Africa would face corruption charges that would affect him officially. Zuma is now out of power on corruption indictment and is currently in court.
In an interview with The DEFENDER in Lagos during week, he has now told the APC’s Governorship Candidate in Ekiti State ahead of the July 2018 election, Dr. John Kayode Fayemi, to work harder on the grassroots and make sure he engages in sincere reconciliation with his co-contestants with whom he contested the primaries for Ekiti State APC ticket. He said once he does this, the sky will be his limit as, according to the Ikere-Ekiti born INRI founder, Fayemi will win the governorship election. That is another conditional prediction predicated on the ability of Fayemi to do the right thing by working on the Ekiti State grassroots and that to do this he needs to reconcile and secure the genuine cooperation and support of his co-contestants for the ticket.
On PDP, he said, “I said it since 2015 that PDP will no longer win election in this country. What election has been conducted that they have won? They are like that because they failed to do the right thing.” He continued, “There is a spell on that name, PDP, and that is the reason they have to change their name.”
When asked if with alliance, coalition and apology to Nigerians PDP will now win 2019, Primate Ayodele, who is said not to talk by his own volition, said whether the alliance and whatever changes the PDP would effect, now, will guarantee them victory in 2019 is subject to check. “But they must change their name if they want to continue to be relevant.” He said.
On APC National Convention, he said, “The convention is going to cause a crack in the party and so they should do things properly” so that the party will not experience such crack.
Asked if the APC should therefore not go ahead with the convention, Ayodele said, “They should go ahead and do their convention, however, they should do the right thing. But can politicians listen?” He expressed dismay.
On Igbo Presidency, “They are just deceiving themselves. They cannot be president in 2023 because they are just talking and talking.
On security, he said, “Buhari still needs to do a lot on security or else, by 2019 it will be so bad. So, Nigerians need to engage in a lot of prayers, not for one person alone but also for the entire country. And this should be done not only by Christian churches, Muslim mosques, all Nigerians must pray for Nigeria.”
On Saraki, he clarified, “I don’t know him as a person and I’m not close to him but I just know that there are many people who can be president and this is time for Bukola to come out and try his best.”
But will APC make him their presidential candidate being that they believe Saraki has been working against the party and its government? This reporter asked, and Ayodele replied, “I am just saying my own and my own is they should just listen to the warnings of God. They should not do like Mahamma of Ghana who ignored the message when I was sent to him and he lost.”
Okay, what next is expected of Saraki, the primate was asked as a last question and he said, “Let him come out and contest. If he still wants to contest for Senate, yes, he will win. But will he get the Senate President again?” He ended the talk with a question.
