Malawian President Peter Mutharika on Sunday attacked Pastor TB Joshua<\/p>\n
over an alleged prophecy that he would die before April 1.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m told there is a man in Nigeria called Joshua and he is saying that
\nZimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and Peter Mutharika will die before April
\n1,\u201d he said on state television.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me tell you, Joshua\u2026 you will fail. What you did in 2012 will not
\nhappen again this year,\u201d the president told a rally in the capital
\nLilongwe.
\nIn 2012, Joshua reportedly predicted the death of a president of an
\nunnamed southern African country. Mutharika\u2019s brother, Bingu, who was
\npresident at the time, did die within the predicted timeframe, giving the
\nprophesy strong currency in Malawi.<\/p>\n
Mutharika did not say when or where Joshua made the latest prophesy.<\/p>\n
In January, Joshua reportedly gave a televised prophecy, telling his
\ncongregation to pray for the leaders in southern Africa, saying: \u201cEnd of
\nFebruary to April this year, peculiar months for Southern Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Mutharika questioned Joshua\u2019s credentials as a prophet, pointing to
\nthe collapse of a guesthouse in his sprawling Synagogue Church of All
\nNations (SCOAN) in Lagos in September 2014, which left 116 people dead,
\nmostly South Africans.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did he not foretell this tragedy?<\/p>\n
\u201cThis all shows that he is a liar. He just wants to raise money,\u201d said
\nMutharika, who is in his mid 70s, pledging to be around in 2019 for the
\nnext presidential elections, and in also 2024, when \u2014 if re-elected \u2014 he
\nwill wrap up his last term.<\/p>\n
Mutharika came to power in 2014 after defeating Joyce Banda.<\/p>\n
Banda, who succeeded Bingu Mutharika, made several visits to the Nigerian
\nheadquarters of Joshua\u2019s church and once described the evangelist as her
\n\u201cspiritual father\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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