Adeboye, speaking at the April edition of the monthly Holy Ghost Service at the Redemption Camp, along Lagos/Ibadan Expressway, disclosed that God told him that “the winner will be the loser”.
The cleric recalled the prophesy he got before the 1993 presidential election, which had Abiola and Bashir Tofa as frontline candidates, as well as the late Aminu Kano.
According to Adeboye: “Election was going to take many years back and while I was minding my business just praying and praising God, God suddenly told me that ‘son, the winner will be the loser, the loser will be the winner and Aminu Kano is the most fortunate of them all’.
“How do you explain a prophesy like this but because it was God that has spoken, it is already settled. Then, Aminu Kano died before the election could take place and you start asking the meaning of him being the most fortunate. With his death, only Abiola and Tofa contested the election.
“At that time, I was the president of PFN, (Pentecostal Fellowships of Nigeria) and pastors came to at TBS (Tafawa Balewa Square) saying, the two candidates in the election are Muslims and we are Christians, so who are we to vote for. I said to them, well, everybody should go and vote his conscience, but this is what my Father said, ‘the winner will be the loser and the loser will be the winner’. Oh, they said to me, come-on now, two people are in an election, there will be a winner. I said that was what my Father said.
“You know the rest of the story. Aminu Kano died and was well honoured. Tofa lost the election but at least he returned to his house a free man and Abiola, the winner went to prison and you know the rest of the story.”
Abiola, presidential candidate of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP) and presumed winner of the watershed election, eventually died in prison custody on July 7, 1998.
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