As Nigerians await prophecies from the usual quarters in the new year, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, on Saturday revealed that God is yet to speak on takes over from President Muhammadu Buhari next year.
Speaking during the 2022 Crossover Service of the church held at the RCCG International Headquarters along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway,
Adeboye said many people had been asking him who would succeed the President Buhari in May 2023.
In what appeared like a dismissal of the plethora of predictions by many clerics, Adeboye said prophecies are no guesswork.
He said God is always very specific on His decisions.
“When God speaks, He speaks specifically. There is no may be or perhaps; He speaks. So, if you hear somebody prophesy, ‘It is likely one of the following people will succeed’, that’s not a prophecy; that’s personal opinion. When God speaks, He will say, ‘This fellow will succeed, that fellow is not going to make it’. That is the way God speaks; He doesn’t say, ‘It is likely,” Adeboye told the congregation.
Speaking about the country’s outlook for 2022, the preacher said “I just want to give you a hint of what Daddy (God) says is in store for the New Year. There are all manners of prophets out there.
“So, you will be hearing all manners of prophecies in the coming days. I am talking to you my children, not criticising anybody. I have my duty to make sure I teach my own children.”
Adeboye reminded Nigerians of what happened ahead of the 1993 presidential election.
He said he had been approached by other pastors for what would happen in 1993.
He said, “When God speaks, some of the things He says may baffle your brain a little. Let me give you an example. I have always told you I am not a prophet; I am only a pastor but I hear from God once in a while.
“Years ago, there were three people contesting to be President of Nigeria— (MKO) Abiola, Aminu Kano and (Bashir) Tofa. At that time, I was President of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria and so the other Pentecostal people asked me, ‘Sir, what do we do? Who do we vote for? There are three of them – all Muslims. Who is going to win sir?’ I said, ‘None’. They said, ‘How can that be? If you toss a coin, when it lands, it is either head or tail’. I said, ‘None’.
“They said, ‘Why?’ I said because God told me. He spoke in parables. He said the winner will be the loser, the loser will be the winner and luckiest of them is Aminu Kanu. Aminu Kanu died before the election. Abiola won but he never got to the throne and the fellow who lost at least didn’t have the embarrassment of winning and not reigning. The winner is the loser and the loser is the winner, the luckiest of them was the one who died. When it played out, my colleagues came to me and said, ‘Well, it seems as if you really heard.’”
The late MKO Abiola, who won the election in 1993 was later arrested after declaring himself the president and later died in custody.
Adeboye added, “For example, if somebody asks me today like many people are already doing, ‘Daddy, who is going to be our next President?’ The answer is: I don’t know. ‘How can you say you don’t know? You’re Daddy’s (God’s) son.’ He hasn’t told me yet. You don’t do guesswork with prophecy.”
The cleric, who grouped his prophecies for Year 2022 into three categories— personal, Nigeria and intercontinental— said God told him specifically that in 2022, “More than 80 per cent of projects starting in 2022 will succeed.
“This year will be a year of the emergence of previously unknown stars.
“In spite of everything happening, this year will be a year of some massive breakthroughs (in science and finance).
“Infant mortality rate will drop by at least 50 per cent.”
For Nigeria, he said, “You don’t make omelette without breaking eggs.” According to the Oxford Lexico dictionary, the English proverb means: One cannot accomplish something without adverse effects elsewhere.
Talking about Africa, Adeboye said, “The issue of migration will take a new turn in the new year.
“There will be two monstrous storms (one coming from the Atlantic Ocean and one from the Pacific Ocean). Unless they are weakened, the results will be terrible.”