2023 Elections

The future president of Nigeria has been announced by religious leaders.

A number of Nigerian voters are eager for religious leaders, such as pastors and Imams, to have a larger say in who gets their vote come the presidential election in 2023.

In most cases, religious leaders try to sway their congregations' voting behaviour based on their own personal convictions and prophesies about who would win the election. This trend may continue in the upcoming 2023 gubernatorial election. Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka, the Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry in Enugu, had predicted that Muhammadu Buhari would become president of Nigeria in the run-up to the 2015 elections.

Mbaka had predicted Buhari would win the presidency despite opposition from Nigerians, and he was proven right.

Our reporter has seen that religious leaders are starting to give their flocks direction as another election season approaches.

Salvation Ministry worker David Ibiyeomie had previously warned Nigerians not to support the wrong political party in the upcoming 2023 election. If Nigerians voted for the wrong political party in 2023, he said, the naira will quadruple to N5,000.

A pastor of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) in Abule Egba, Lagos, predicted that Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC), would be elected in 2023.

Alamu David, a pastor, claims God revealed to him that Tinubu will succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.

The General Superintendent of Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor William Kumuyi, and his counterpart from the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, both said God had not told them anything about the elections, while other pastors openly and privately endorse their preferred presidential candidates. Adeboye expressed doubt that elections in 2023 will take place.

Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, a controversial Islamic cleric, has argued that Nigeria requires a seasoned politician to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari as the country's leader in 2023. Gumi said that Nigerians in the 21st century should abandon ethno-religious politics in order to create a strong nation.

When asked about this topic, Primate Elijah Ayodele, leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, indicated that prophets would play a significant part in choosing the next president of the country.

Ayodele argued that the Nigerian people should only pay attention to true prophets of God if they didn't want to repeat the error of electing a bad leader in the past. Ayodele remarked, "Nigerians no longer desire to follow what God is saying; only a select handful of us would play a pivotal role in 2023."


Pastors have divergent predictions on who will rule Nigeria, with some pointing to Atiku, others to Obi, and still others to Tinubu. If only Nigerians listened to their pastors and prophets, they would play a significant role in society. Given the current state of affairs in Nigeria, we risk making the same error we did in 2015 if we are not vigilant.


Nigerians are only clamouring, but they have never clamoured to know the state of God's thoughts over this election.

I warned Ghanaians that electing Akufo Addo in 2020 would be a mistake because he would bring hardship, and look what's happened to the Cedi since then. They say it crashed.

If I inform the people that this person is who God wants and they still don't accept them, then it's their decision and not mine to make. I'm not rooting for anyone in particular, and the principles of my party are based on God rather than people. Until God informs me that this is the one He has selected for the country, I have no idea if Obi, Tinubu, or Atiku can do better.

But Yerima Shettima, national president of the Arewa Youths Consultative Forum (AYCF), downplayed Ayodele's position.

Shettima argued that by 2023, Nigerians will be sufficiently educated that religious leaders may not be able to sway the outcome of the election.

He bemoaned the fact that previous prophecies made by religious authorities had never come true.

In contrast to the elections in 2015 and 2019, when clerics from both religions made predictions that never came true, the 2023 election will not be business as usual because people are better informed.

The people who follow them are dissatisfied because many of the things they predicted never came to pass. As far as I can see, they don't really control the flow of votes. We know what happened in 2015 and 2019, where they prophesied, and all of their forecasts appeared to be doomed, therefore it won't work this time around.

Some of these ministers have failed miserably. God never fails to deliver on his promises, and we have seen what happens when people claim to have received a communication from God only to be proven wrong.

In that case, I have to ask which deity they are appealing to. Should we put our faith in this mighty God, oracle, or something else entirely? He warned us to "be on guard" against the suspects.


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