AS Zambians revel in the joy of their first African Cup Of Nations triumph, a video is circulating the internet with claims that Nigerian spiritualist TB Joshua accurately predicted their victory and Didier Drogba’s shocking penalty miss mere hours before the match began.
Video footage posted by The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) in Lagos, Nigeria on YouTube shows T.B. Joshua talking on Sunday, several hours before the match between Zambia and Ivory Coast was due to start.Joshua, who similarly predicted Ghana’s historic victory in the 2009 U-20 World Cup, said victory would be for the underdogs.’Yes, this blessing is for a country you are not expecting; this victory is for a country you are not expecting,’ Joshua said, speaking in a church service televised live on Emmanuel TV, a station very popular across Africa.With Ivory Coast going into the match as overwhelming favourites, replete with many Premier League and European stars, it is assumed Joshua was referring to Zambia. Although known for speaking in parables when prophesying, the fact that Joshua was talking about Zambia became even more apparent as he proceeded to explain that God wanted the nation in question to rejoice because of a past tragedy.’God wants to make them happy because of the victims of what happened to them in the past. Yes, this is joy; everybody will celebrate. That will make them forget about the past record of what happened to the same country… This is a day of forgetting, and dancing!’The last time Zambia reached the AFCON final in 1994, it was just a year after 18 members of Zambia’s national football team died tragically in a plane crash in Libreville, Gabon. It was an event that shocked the entire nation and wiped out several of their brightest football stars. En route to the final, the current team had spoken of the strength and inspiration they had gained in remembering the tragedy. – modernghana.com
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