[size=15pt]What Prophets Said About Yar’Adua[/size]

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Written by Ebenezer Adurokiya
The death of President Umaru Yar’Adua on Wednesday might not have come as a surprise, given the fact that many prognostications about his eventual demise had flooded news-stands several times before now.

Yar’Adua had not come into the eye of the storm until he became the president of Nigeria in 2007, amid fears that he might not survive his first tenure as a result of the terminal disease he was believed to be suffering from.

Predictions about Yar’Adua’s death could be said to have two dimensions. While some implied he would not die come what may, others believed that his death was a matter of time as he was only living on borrowed time.

On his own part, Primate Theophilus Olabayo of the Evangelical Church of Yahweh based in Maryland, Lagos, confidently noted that Yar"Adua, the man who was then making frantic efforts to worm himself into the hearts of many Nigerians, considering the controversy that shrouded his presidency, had no later than June or July of 2008 to leave the presidential stool for a God's own replacement.

When Yar'dua had to tarry more than usual in Germany, there were fears in the air as to whether the man would come back or not. The president was back that year but died 22 months and six days after, against the prediction of Olabayo.

Nigerians from all walks of life had been admonished right from the outset of Yar’Adua’s ascension to the presidency by respected men of God to pray for the then president. One of such was Pastor E.A. Adeboye of The Redeemed Christian Church of God who, in his prophecy for Nigeria in January 2008, just barely a year after the president’s assumption of office, strongly enjoined members of the church and, indeed, all Nigerians to pray for President Yar’Adua. Before the end of that year, the president had been in and out of both German and Saudi hospitals in search of medical explanation and solution to his health.

Whether Nigerians prayed or not, one fact remained that things never went well for the frail-looking president.

In his prophecy for the nation in 2009, Adeboye, yet again, gave another marching order that Nigerians should intensify prayers for the president. In his usual economy of words, the man of God did not actually lay bare what his crystal ball was showing to Nigerians; he simply said,” intensify prayers for the president.” To the discerning minds and followers of his manner of presentation, Adeboye often prefers to speak in parables. For instance, in June 1998 National Holy Ghost Service at the Redemption Camp, just before sharing the grace, in his characteristic manner, the man of God asked the faithful to greet themselves “Happy New Year” in mid-year. And as people were still wondering what it meant, the then maximum ruler, General Sani Abacha, who was holding the nation by the jugular, suddenly slumped and died three days after the event.

Warning over Yar’Adua’s death did not abate from the General Overseer of RCCG in 2009 as he specially asked the faithful to fast and pray for seven days, not only for Nigeria, but for the ailing president. In fact, all the church ministers were asked to go on a dry fast for five days which was obeyed.

Little wonder when President Yar’Adua was ferried out to Saudi Arabia in November last year and there was panic over the uncertainty of his health, Adeboye, during the Holy Ghost Congress last December, frowned at why Nigerians were taken aback over the deteriorating health situation of the president having refused to hearken to God’s warning that the ailing president should be interceded for in prayers.

The founder of Synagogue Church of All Nations, Pastor Temitope Joshua, during the Sunday service of 29th November, though did not predict Yar’Adua’s death, called on members of his church to pray for him vigorously. He charged them to pray for the body and soul of the president the following Thursday and fast for him on Friday, adding that “I have nothing more to say than that.”

However, founder of Inri Evangelical Church and president, Inri Widows Foundation, Lagos, Primate Elijah Ayodele, had a contrary prophecy concerning Yar’Adua.

The cleric, who is noted for blaring his predictions to all with no restriction, early on December 2009, said: “God in His infinite mercies has had compassion on the president and reversed his death, just as he did to King Hezekiah of old in the Bible.”

He said Yar’Adua would not die as God had looked into the petitions of Nigerians and answered their prayers for taking it upon themselves to seek the Lord’s face on behalf of the president.

Explaining why God decided to revert the death of the president, Ayodele added: “Besides, God reversed Yar’Adua’s death because his death would cause military coup and would take the country backwards. That is one big reason the Lord decided to reverse his death.”

He added that “God would make Yar’Adua to bounce back and function effectively as the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

Several other predictions were made even by politicians and other religious stakeholders who kept encouraging Nigerians to keep faith in the possibility of the return of Yar’Adua.

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98percent of d pastor base their predictions on gues and not prophesy! They shld go and rest joo with their manipulations.