As Nigeria approaches the presidential elections in 2023, certain electorates are still eager to see their spiritual leaders, such as pastors and Imams, play a significant role in determining who they will vote for.
Spiritual leaders typically encourage their followers to vote for specific candidates based on their convictions and predictions. The general elections in 2023 may not be an exception.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, Rev Father Ejike Mbaka, Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, predicted Muhammadu Buhari’s election as Nigeria’s president ahead to the 2015 elections.
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Despite much criticism, Mbaka maintained that Buhari would win the presidential election, which he finally did.
With another election season approaching, spiritual leaders are beginning to push their followers in the right direction, according to our correspondent.
The Salvation Ministry’s David Ibiyeomie warned Nigerians not to vote for the wrong political party in 2023.
He warned that if Nigerians voted for the wrong political party in 2023, the naira would quadruple to N5,000.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, will win the 2023 presidential election, according to a pastor of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) in Abule Egba, Lagos.
According to Pastor Alamu David, God revealed to him that Tinubu will succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.
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While some pastors openly and privately support their preferred presidential candidates, the General Superintendent of Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor William Kumuyi, and his counterpart from the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, both stated that God had not revealed anything to them about the elections. Adeboye stated that he was unsure whether the 2023 elections will take place.
Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, a controversial Islamic cleric, has stated that Nigeria requires an experienced politician to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. Gumi stated that in order to achieve a united Nigeria in the twenty-first century, Nigerians need abandon ethno-religious politics.
Ayodele urged Nigerians to listen to genuine prophets of God to avoid the past mistake of picking the wrong leader.
Speaking with Newsmen, Ayodele said: “Nigerians don’t want to follow what God is saying any longer; only a few people like us will play a critical role in 2023.
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“Pastors have seen different things, some people say it’s Atiku, Obi, or Tinubu, but only God knows who will lead this country amongst them. Pastors and prophets would play a major role if only Nigerians listened. Because Nigerians are desperate now, the same mistake we made in 2015 might repeat if we are not careful.
“The person we think is not good may be the good one before God; Nigerians are just clamouring but have never clamoured to know the state of God’s mind regarding this election; they have not.
“When Akufo Addo wanted to contest in Ghana in 2020, I warned them that this man they picked would bring about suffering; what is happening to Cedis now? It has crashed.
“Our role is to tell the people what the lord wants; if I tell the people this is who God wants, but they refuse, then it’s up to them. I’m not for anybody; my party stands for God, not humans. I don’t know if Obi, Tinubu, or Atiku can do better; until God tells me this is the one I have chosen for the nation, speak.”
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Ayodele’s position was, however, downplayed by the National President of the Arewa Youths Consultative Forum, AYCF, Yerima Shettima.
Shettima noted that spiritual leaders might not influence the voting pattern in 2023 because Nigerians are well-informed.
He lamented that prophecies from religious leaders in the past failed to materialise.
“The election of 2023 is not going to be business as usual; people are well informed, unlike what was obtainable in 2015 and 2019, where clergymen from both religions were prophesying things that never came to pass.
“Their followers are disappointed because they prophesied many things that never happened. I don’t think they have that influence on where votes go and don’t. It won’t work this time around; we know what happened in 2015 and 2019, where they prophesied, and all their predictions appeared to be doomed, so it won’t work.
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“Some of these clergymen have failed in their fields. We have seen those who said they got their message from God, and it never came to pass; God never lies or disappoints when he makes a promise.
“So, I wonder which God they are consulting. Is it this almighty God we worship or are they consulting an oracle? We must be wary of those characters,” he told Newsmen.
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