{"id":1582,"date":"2019-01-03T17:24:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T17:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2019-01-03T17:24:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T17:24:40","slug":"atiku-vs-buhari-tb-joshua-speaks-on-predicting-winner-of-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/atiku-vs-buhari-tb-joshua-speaks-on-predicting-winner-of-presidential-election","title":{"rendered":"Atiku vs Buhari: TB Joshua speaks on predicting winner of presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prophet T.B. Joshua of Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, has denied releasing any prophecy regarding Nigeria\u2019s upcoming presidential election in February 2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-4\" data-google-query-id=\"COad7IOO0t8CFZUm4Aod4BQJqA\">\n<p>President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will slug it out with Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and other presidential candidates next month.<\/p>\n<p>According to Prophet Joshua, he was quoted during his annual New Year service as saying: \u201cThe election will be closely contested between the two leading political parties but I see Atiku Abubakar winning\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-5\" data-google-query-id=\"COed7IOO0t8CFZUm4Aod4BQJqA\">\n<p>However, in a statement released on his official Facebook page, Joshua categorically denied the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProphet T.B. Joshua has not yet released any prophecy for the year, 2019,\u201dthe statement began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny prophecy credited to him should be ignored. Emmanuel TV is our means of spreading our message; stay tuned to Emmanuel TV,\u201d it concluded.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-6\" data-google-query-id=\"COid7IOO0t8CFZUm4Aod4BQJqA\">\n<p>The cleric, however, bemoaned the \u2018religious spirit\u2019 which has infiltrated Christianity, stressing that \u201cJesus\u2019 focus is the motive behind what we do\u201d and \u201cChristianity lies in the heart\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you see someone who is doing good, don\u2019t be in a haste to see him as good because you don\u2019t know his motive,\u201d he continued, citing the example of politicians who fail to fulfil election campaigns after being elected to office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJesus looks at our motive behind our action but men look at the action\u2026Jesus tests our heart to reward us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigeria, we should pray against a stop-over and pray for a smooth democracy,\u201d Joshua stated on December 9th2018.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on July 1, 2018, he had warned Nigerians to \u201cpray against the interruption of the democratic practice\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-20\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prophet T.B. Joshua of Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, has denied releasing any prophecy regarding Nigeria\u2019s upcoming presidential election in February 2019. President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will slug it out with Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and other presidential candidates next month. According to Prophet Joshua, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,16],"tags":[38,235],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-parties","tag-election","tag-president"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Atiku vs Buhari: TB Joshua speaks on predicting winner of presidential election - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/atiku-vs-buhari-tb-joshua-speaks-on-predicting-winner-of-presidential-election\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Atiku vs Buhari: TB Joshua speaks on predicting winner of presidential election\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prophet T.B. 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