By Olakunle Olafioye
The man of God in-charge of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Babatunde Ayodele, has warned that except the Igbo put their house in order ahead of next year’s presidential election, the prospect of leading the country would again elude their zone.
Primate Ayodele, who noted that it is the turn of the Southeast geopolitical zone to rule the country said that the zone would rue the missed opportunity and will face the wrath of future generations should the zone fail to get its acts together ahead of the election.
The popular cleric made this known in Lagos during the launch of the 2022/2023 edition of the “Warning to the Nations” a compendium of prophecies for countries of the world.
In his prediction for 2023 presidential election, the popular seer said that the contest will be a straight battle between the candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar whom he tipped to emerge victorious and ruled out the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu from the contest.
According to him, “the Muslim-Muslim ticket will fail Tinubu and the APC totally. The APC will sink Nigeria if it attempts to impose its candidate on the country. Obi needs to re-strategize and do all the needful to be able to win the contest. In fact, Obi is going to get the backing of international community, but that won’t secure his victory at the poll. But as it stands Atiku will still emerge, not Tinubu. At the end of the day, Nigeria will still vote a failed government because no change of government will make Nigeria move forward, only Obi can try it. The best of the worse will become the president of Nigeria.
“Unless Nigerians shun money for votes in 2023, Nigeria will not get the right president because of the level of poverty. Nigeria will still be backward until Nigerians reject voting for the sake of money and in 2023 there will be many special fraudulent acts by both parties, card readers problems and apart from this let us rebuke violence in election 2023. Neither PDP nor APC will make Nigeria better. Unless we get the right people the outcome of the coming election 2023 will surprise so many people and if Tinubu forces himself to be president Nigeria will collapse and he will not be able to manage the country as expected and set the country on a better pedestal. Tinubu and Atiku cannot take Nigeria to a glorious land as revealed by the spirit of the Lord.”
Primate Ayodele also said that neither Atiku nor Tinubu can restructure Nigeria. “Neither of these candidates can restructure Nigeria. Peter Obi can try, but the rest cannot. Restructuring will calm down issues (in the country).”
He berated the government for the separate attack on the president’s convoy and the attack on Kuje Prison , saying that “the government refused to listen to us because they consider us as an enemy. The attack on the president’s convoy and the one at Kuje Prison were captured in my last predictions, but the government failed to yield because they see us as enemy.
“The assassination of the Chinese Prime Minister; the death of the Angolan President; the uproar in Sri Lanka, the coup in Burkina Faso, Mali and many others, were some of my predictions that have come to fulfillment recently. Nigerian government and the governments all over the world must cultivate the habit of paying serious attention to prophecies in the interest of their people.
“Nigeria as a country needs prayers for peace. Let us pray for unity of the country. Let us pray against political, communal, economic, religious and security troubles. Only God will save the country to go beyond 2035 except right steps are taken to right the wrongs.
“Nigerians in 2023 need a lot of prayers to avert doom in our country. We need to pray against political tension. We should pray against cases of collapsed bridges, unusual tension and against unexpected explosions that will take lives.”
On APC‘s decision to settle for Muslim-Muslim ticket, Primate Ayodele said: “APC wants to islamise Nigeria. That Muslim-Muslim ticket cannot work in Nigeria. It will only earn the party failure. APC cannot win, Tinubu cannot win except they rig the election. Mind you it is the cabal that wants to install him because the cabal is very much interested in this election. If APC wins, Nigeria will sink. Atiku will only do little. The people who can do it were not given the tickets.
“Nigeria is in trouble. Security-wise we are in trouble, economically we are in trouble. Herdsmen are still going to cause trouble in the nation’s agricultural sector.”
The Lagos-based cleric also predicted confrontation between the adherents of the IMN and the nation’s security operatives, saying that “the Islamic Movement in Nigeria founded by El Zak-Zaky will still cause problems and Nigeria needs to be careful because they will be killing police operatives.”
Speaking on terrorism in Nigeria, Primate Ayodele said: “I foresee that a lot of facts will emerge on the names of top people in the country who are sponsoring these terrorist groups: ISWAP, Boko Hara and Islamic Movement in Nigeria. Their sponsors will be exposed.
“The country needs prayers against insecurity. I foresee that in Africa herdsmen will become more rampant in killings and kidnappings. The spirit of God says apart from the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) terror gang, there will be new terrorist groups. I foresee that there will be ethnic and tribal problems. There is need to pray to survive all these.
“Farm produce will be expensive and the economy will not be stable. There will be political tension and let us pray for unity in this country. I foresee that some political heads will be involved in terrorism even as members of the cabal will be working in order to cause problem. The country will experience religious crises as churches will be attacked. There will be fight between the Igbo and the Hausa, on one hand, and the Hausa and the Yoruba, on the other hand.
“Let’s rebuke the death of a one time Minister, Vice President, President, Assistant Inspector General of Police, Deputy Inspector General of Police and a Senator. ASUU will still go on strike. Nigeria needs lots of prayer to be successful as a nation. I foresee changes in Nigeria even as I foresee new things in Nigeria.
“In Nigeria, not all deputy governors and speakers will finish their terms. Some governors will be indicted and EFCC will run after them. Some aides of Buhari and some federal permanent secretaries need to be careful and watchful to avert problems.
“In Nigeria, let us pray so that there will be no case of contaminated oil products and for any vessel not to sink that will affect the economy of the country. Let us pray not to have issues as regards any of our oil storage facilities.
“In Nigeria, states that will have crisis are: Kano, Kaduna, Nassarawa, Borno, Kogi, Imo, Anambra, Ondo, Ekiti, partly Kwara and Plateau. The government should work on these states.
“Let us rebuke attacks on morgues and stealing of corpses. Let us rebuke attacks on hospitals and the kidnapping of Chief Medical Directors and Professor.”