By Dorcas Oiza
Primate Elijah Ayodele, Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, can easily simultaneously pass as the most popular and controversial prophet in Africa but isn’t it wonderful that despite the controversies his prophecies delve into, there has never been any serious threat against his ministry?
Due to his fearlessness, Primate Ayodele prophesies about subjects that many others in his ministry shy away from, he speaks about very powerful individuals that other prophets dare not talk about probably because they are scared of their responses or they prefer to hide away from the truth but for Primate Ayodele, the outcome of his prophecies has never bothered him.
Although most of his prophecies have never sat well with the personalities that he mentions, they always end up replying to him. Some even fight him by engaging in media attacks against his personality and ministry but all of their responses make no impact because in the end, the prophecies they are angry about always come to pass.
Some of them go as far as lying to prove a point that Primate Ayodele’s prophecies don’t come to pass but as records don’t lie, all of them end up freezing out after they have been presented with a counter that states the truth.
For instance, a former aide to Ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, Femi Adesina who was indeed a regular journalist at Primate Ayodele’s media events embarked on a futile mission to dent the name of Primate Ayodele because the prophet spoke against his principal and the state of the nation. Primate Ayodele had in a press conference spoken about the future of Nigeria and the impending division of the country but this didn’t go down well with Femi Adesina and in a response, he highlighted eight prophecies of Primate Ayodele that didn’t come to pass, according to him.
Unfortunately for him, these allegations didn’t last 24 hours before a counter was produced, knocking out the lies against Primate Ayodele. It was discovered that all the prophecies he said didn’t come to pass came to pass and he also misunderstood some.
A former governorship candidate of APC in Anambra, Andy Uba went all out against Primate Ayodele for saying he would not become governor in the last governorship election that was held in the state. Primate Ayodele had advised him before the primary election that he shouldn’t waste his money because he would not make any significant impact in the governorship election. As always, Andy Uba and his team launched several media attacks against Primate Ayodele, calling him several names but in the end, Andy Uba lost the election and later on, the court disgracefully sacked him as a candidate in the election which means his name doesn’t even exist as a governorship candidate in the election.
A candidate who was quite popular in Kogi state before the governorship election, Honourable Leke Abejide wasn’t also comfortable with Primate Ayodele prophesying about his ambition because he felt it wasn’t in his favour. Primate Ayodele had advised him not to embark on his governorship ambition because it wasn’t yet his time and it would cause a dent in his political career. His team launched a media attack against the prophet and called him a PDP prophet. Unfortunately, Leke Abejide was almost non-existent in the affairs of things at the time the election was held in Kogi state.
In the last presidential election that was held in Nigeria, Primate Ayodele warned the candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, who at that time was the most popular candidate that he shouldn’t rely on the noise around his candidacy. The prophet warned him to collapse his structure and work alongside other opposition members if they truly wanted to seize power from the ruling party. As usual, members of Peter Obi’s team sponsored unfounded allegations against the prophet, called him names and assured him that they were going to win the election but here we are, Peter Obi came third in the election.
Just recently, Primate Ayodele recommended the removal of Mele Kyari as the Group Managing Director of NNPCL to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Primate Ayodele called on Tinubu to replace him because the fuel crisis in Nigeria will go beyond repair if care isn’t taken. The prophet revealed that Petrol will be sold for N1500/Litre if the president doesn’t reform the petroleum sector.
Just like those stated above, the media team of the NNPCL and Mele Kyari sponsored different content on notable platforms to discredit Primate Ayodele. They went as far as importing some already cleared misconceptions about the prophet’s prophecies as a way of getting back at him. They went on about it for about one week, fighting the prophet who doesn’t even care about their responses.
As it stands now, Primate Ayodele is gradually getting vindicated following the sharp increase in the price of fuel in the last one month. Petrol price was increased just barely one month ago to N868/Litre and two days ago, it was increased again to above N1,000/Litre. Are we not moving towards N1,500/Litre as Primate Ayodele foretold?
I haven’t seen anyone in Nigeria or the world at large launch attacks against Primate Ayodele and end up winning and this is simply because what they ‘tackle’ him for always comes to pass. The mistake some of them make is thinking that Primate Ayodele’s prophecies are personal vendetta against them meanwhile, He is only delivering God’s message to warn and prepare them for whatever is coming.
For example, Primate Ayodele warned Dangote about his refinery and asked him to be prayerful because forces would rise against the success. It is this same Primate Ayodele who called on Tinubu a few days ago that he should remove forces frustrating the success of the Dangote refinery.
Primate Ayodele who spoke about Anambra’s coming election and said Ifeanyi Ubah is the only one who can unseat Charles Soludo is still the same person that is now saying Soludo will win after Ifeanyi Ubah’s death. Meanwhile, when he shared the prophecy on Ifeanyi Ubah earlier, Soludo’s team launched attacks against the prophet because they felt it was a personal attack against Soludo. If he had any personal thing against Soludo, would he come around to say Soludo will win since Ifeanyi Ubah is dead?
In Ghana, Primate Ayodele was one of the pastors who foretold the victory of John Mahama some years ago when he became President. Right now as we speak, Primate Ayodele is trending for speaking against the ambition of the same Mahama that he ‘supported’ some years back, what does this tell us? It’s simply indicating that Primate Ayodele’s prophecies are not to support or go against anyone. Whoever his prophecies favour, they are not as a result of personal relationships or personal issues with anyone, they are just what God told him to tell his people.
In 2001, Primate Ayodele told Bola Ahmed Tinubu that he would become Nigeria’s president someday but with the way he has been talking about this current administration, one would think he has an axe to grind with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu but that’s not so. At least, everything he said about this administration has come to pass.
Besides, Primate Ayodele has confirmed records of fulfilled prophecies both locally and internationally. He launched a compendium of 10,000 fulfilled prophecies in 2020 and in 2024, he has launched another 5,000 in the space of four years. These are records no one has been able to attain in the world of prophetic ministry.
Very recently, some of his prophecies that came to pass include the outcome of the presidential election in Tunisia. The prophet had revealed that the incumbent president would retain his position despite the fact that there would be protests against him.
“Tunisia election, sincerely, the same person will still retain the seat despite the fact that there will be protests. An uprising can send the man away but he is serious and doesn’t want to go anywhere.’’
Just as he said, the incumbent president won the election despite protests against his government.
Tragedy struck following the death of a pilot who died on board. Primate Ayodele in his annual prophecy book titled Warnings To The Nations (2024/2025 edition) had warned the world to pray against the death of a pilot.
The current crisis in Kenya involving impeachment moves against the deputy president, Righathi Gachagua was also foretold by Primate Ayodele. The prophet in June this year warned some deputy presidents across the world including Kenya against a ‘forced resignation’.
How then can anyone defeat a man whose ministry is built solely on the truth and divine signals? His detractors are much, always happy to tackle him in the media space but they always chicken out after what the prophet foretold comes to pass.