Controversial cleric, Apostle Johnson has stated that God did not choose President Muhammadu Buhari to lead Nigeria.
Apostle Johnson Suleman is the General Overseer and Senior Pastor of Omega Fire Ministries (OFM) and President of Celebration TV, Auchi, Edo State, stated the Buhari was chosen by Nigerians and not God.
The cleric revealed this in a recent interview with ENCOMIUM Weekly.
He said: “Nigerians chose Buhari and not God. Let me tell you this, at times, God can allow you choose what you want. There was a time in the Bible that people wanted Saul and everyone was chanting and praying for Saul, Saul, Saul…and the coming of Saul was very dramatic, you would think God had a hand in it because he was the tallest and at the end of the day, when Saul started dealing with them, they regretted their choice. Your child screams ‘I want ice cream’; out of pressure, you may give him. You may have even warned him that it will cause diabetes but he won’t listen.
Buhari is the sugar Nigerians have taken and now we have become a country that is diabetic. You won’t understand my pain. I am not critical, it’s when you take care of people that you feel the pain. For instance, I have 300 widows, I pay them every month. Whether I eat or not, they must eat. I have 160 students in polytechnics that I pay their fees and about 92 students in the universities. When they come and say, daddy, I need transport to school, and you are giving them times three of what you used to give them and check that out, why won’t you scream? I have a television station, Celebration TV, where I am watched by almost half a billion people, so I don’t need popularity, I am known all over the world, I was a journalist, I have written over 80 books, I have antecedents.
So, I am not saying this because I need popularity. No. It was not this bad. Is it that when people were stealing money things were good and now we are recovering and things are bad? I don’t understand the irony of the whole thing. I can say it again, there is no hope in this government except on God. I heard the Minister of Labour and productivity, Chris Ngige said that Nigerians should be patient for the future, can I ask? Is it a man who is dying of hunger, starving that will see the future?
In Nigeria today, the level of poverty is rising every day? Every Thursday, aside the monthly salary, we distribute rice to widows and we have been doing this for seven years, we have never missed any Thursday but for three weeks, the money we spent is triple of what we used to spend because rice has gone up. I don’t have a company and neither do we print money.
The truth is this; God will not forgive the present leadership because Nigerians trusted them. Nigerians hoped on them and there is nothing as painful as hope dashed. In the time of Goodluck Jonathan, nobody abused him because they didn’t have hope in him, but today, people look at Buhari and they shake their head because they don’t even know what to say to him. Recently, I learnt that even the Northerners, his own people don’t want to hear anyone mention his name around them. I see his ministers resigning, and this will be as a result of frustration.”