Matthew Ashimolowo is the Senior
Pastor of Kingsway
International Christian Centre
(KICC) in London. He
talked to Sunday Sun about the
state of the nation, his life
as regards touching the lives of
the less privileged, his
vision for widows and lots more.
We are in the New Year. Nigerians
would like to know
what God is saying to us as a
country. Do you have a mes
sage 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
and the process they are funding
the wrong people.
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