Malawian President Peter Mutharika on Sunday attacked
Prophet TB Joshua over an alleged prophecy that he would
die before April 1.
Speaking on state TV at a rally in his capital Lilongwe, the
president said:
“I’m told there is a man in Nigeria called Joshua and he is
saying that Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and Peter
Mutharika will die before April 1. Let me tell you, Joshua…
you will fail. What you did in 2012 will not happen again
this year,”In 2012, Joshua reportedly predicted the death of
a president of an unnamed southern African country.
Mutharika’s brother, Bingu, who was president at the time,
did die within the predicted timeframe, giving the prophesy
strong currency in Malawi.
In January, Joshua reportedly gave a televised prophecy,
telling his congregation to pray for the leaders in southern
Africa, saying: “End of February to April this year, peculiar
months for Southern Africa.”
Mutharika questioned Joshua’s credentials as a prophet,
pointing to the collapse of a guesthouse in his sprawling
Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) in Lagos in
September 2014, which left 116 people dead, mostly South
Africans.
“Why did he not foretell this tragedy? This all shows that
he is a liar. He just wants to raise money.”
Mutharika is in his mid 70s and has pledged to be around
in 2019 for the next presidential elections, and in also 2024,
when — if re-elected — he will wrap up his last term
.Mutharika came to power in 2014 after defeating Joyce
Banda.
Banda, who succeeded Bingu Mutharika, made several
visits to the Nigerian headquarters of Joshua’s church and
once described the evangelist as her “spiritual father”.
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