Today, Edo State will either get a new governor or the incumbent will start his second term in office.
While the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate is Osagie Ize -Iyamu, his strongest contender is the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Governor Godwin Obaseki.
Ahead of the election, several prophets have predicted the outcome. While some have said that the APC will win, others said PDP’s Governor Obaseki will return as governor of the state. We present prophecies on the election by popular prophets.
Prophet Faleyinmu Olagoroye:
“I have said what God has revealed to me on that. But if there’s anybody claiming Obaseki will win, let’s wait and see what will happen when the time comes. All I know is that Obaseki will lose out in the election unless it’s rigged in his favour.”
Prophet Wale Olagunju:
“I told Obaseki that if he decamped to another party, he would fail. Ize-Iyamu is the candidate to beat. I don’t know how Obaseki will win the election because the election that produced him was stage-managed. They manipulated the election against Ize-Iyamu. You see how God is doing things. The same Ize-Iyamu that they blackmailed is the one they are bringing on board again. So, Ize-Iyamu is the next governor.’’
Prophet Ogidan Jesu:
“Governor Godwin Obaseki will be highly betrayed; most of the people he relies upon will leave him at the last minute. Violence will match with violence and money for money but in the end, the APC will win the election.”
Primate Babatunde Elijah Ayodele
Primate Elijah Ayodele, the leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church has been prophesying about the Edo election long before the primaries.
In 2018, Primate Ayodele had said that Governor Obaseki would have serious issues with Adams Oshiomhole about his second term as governor.
In March 2020, Primate Ayodele foresaw that Oshiomhole wanted to ease Governor Obaseki out of the APC primaries, which of course happened.
The story of how Governor Obaseki was denied ticket in the APC primaries before he decamped to the PDP where he clinched the governorship ticket after much ado is legendary.
After this happened, Primate Ayodele prophesied again that Governor Obaseki would become victorious in the election but gave a clause ‘except there is serious manipulation.’
His words: “People are supporting Governor Obaseki but those people might not vote; he needs to be rugged or else he will be eased out. If he takes things simple, he will lose out.
“There will be manipulations in the election. If he isn’t careful, his victory will be given to someone else. Even if he appeals the case, he won’t be given. He must not allow manipulations in the election. If he loses, he will be forever irrelevant in politics.
“They have already prepared the manipulation process to ease him out. He shouldn’t be carried away by the crowd he sees at the moment. He needs to work against the manipulation technically and pack his arsenal together to battle against APC and Ize-Iyamu.’’
Furthermore, Primate Ayodele said: “The question is what is manipulation? Manipulation is an act of controlling or influencing a person or situation cleverly or unscrupulously.
“Manipulation can come in different ways; we can have human manipulation, financial manipulation, threats, to mention a few.
“Manipulation has occurred since thugs started going to the houses of opponents with arms, threatening several opponents.
“It is also worthy of being noted that in Governor Obaseki’s cabinet, there has been a very strategic decamp to the camp of the APC, in order to manipulate the incumbent’s victory.
“Also, with the invasion of the Edo State Assembly months ago, and plans to impeach the governor, is that not manipulation already?
“As it stands, the prophecy on manipulation has come to pass. Hence, for victory, Godwin Obaseki needs to seriously work against the manipulations in every way else, the unexpected may happen. How then can Godwin Obaseki overcome this manipulation?”
