Pastor Ashimolowo Speaks About Nigeria’s Next President & What Boko Haram Really Is

Matthew Ashimolowo the Senior
Pastor of Kingsway International
Christian Centre (KICC) in London in
an interview with The Sun spoke
about the country’s next presidential election and what Boko Haram really is.

We are in the New Year. Nigerians
would like to know what God is saying to us as a country. Do you have a mes­sage 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 di­
vide 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.

Do you think foreigners are backing
Boko Haram?

The only foreign aide in my opinion to Boko Haram are weapons from Libya during the revolution.

They came down south. Other than that, it will be people who believe in the advancement of the religion of Islam but do not realize that in the process they are funding the wrong people