
Matthew Ashimolowo the Senior Pastor of Kingsway
International Christian Centre (KICC) in London in an interview with The Sun spoke
about the country’s next presidential election and what Boko Haram really is.
We are in the New Year. Nigerians would like to know what
God is saying to us as a country. Do you have a message for Nigerians?
Very interesting. I believe that globally, there is going to
be a shaking of the world. There will be earthquakes in some places. There
might be famine in places they never knew famine, and flooding in places they
didn’t expect. For Nigeria, the Lord showed me, who will win the election. I
will not mention his name, because I have to be politically neutral. But when
the president’s name is announced, 20 percent of a certain part of the nation
will not agree. Eventually, after negotiation they will. We will agree that
we’re one. Wales is only 400,000 people or about a million people.
They call
them a nation, and they call Yorubas who are 27 million a tribe, the Igbo who
are 18 million you call them a tribe. For us to have many nations that make up
Nigeria, it was God that made it happen. And that prophetic mandate still
remains on Nigeria. Anyone who incites people to divide this nation will lose
his chance. Nigeria will remain one. After all the noise, you will be amazed
that also some politicians will be shocked, nobody will be ready to die for
them. There will be peace in Nigeria after the election. I see a man who will
one day rise, but I don’t know when, I don’t think it’s up to 10 years though .
He will turn the fortunes of Nigeria round. Nigeria will look like one of
these advancing nations like United Arab Emirates , India, and China. That is
how Nigeria will be.
You said there will be peace, what about Boko Haram
insurgency?
Boko Haram is a snake with many heads. We are cutting one head,
which is why the other head shows up. If you know the hydras in the story of
Hercules, every time the head of that snake was cut, two heads grew there. We
need a robust approach. Boko Haram will still be around but we need a robust
approach. We need to deal with fifth columnists in the system who are
empowering them. I am 62 years old. I was born in the barracks and I know when
Nigeria fought the civil war. My father fought the war too. In fact, he died in
Biafra. He died by the Asaba bridge. But I can tell you, in Nigeria, there were
only five battalions when Nigeria fought the three-year civil war and yet the
war came to an end. It was massive. How can you fight a bunch of riff-raffs
with the army and they hold you to ransom? Fifth columnists are selling Nigeria
to them, giving them petrol, money and ammunition. As my mother used to say,
when a child keeps throwing stones and he’s not exhausted, there is a supplier
in the corner. But our prayer should be that our government will be bold enough
to indict the fifth columnists, either inside the system or outside the system.
Do you think foreigners are backing Boko Haram?
The only foreign aide in my opinion to Boko Haram are
weapons from Libya during the revolution. They came down south. Other than that,
it will be people who believe in the advancement of the religion of Islam but
do not realize that in the process they are funding the wrong people.
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