If predictions were what church members follow, then Nigerian televangelist Temitope B. Joshua would lose majority of his followers to some oracles in India and China.
TB Joshua, as he is fondly called by his congregation, predicted on Sunday that the United States Elections would be won by Hillary Clinton. He said it was going to be a narrow win for the woman and that shortly into her administration, her “boat will be rocked”, as a “vote of no confidence” would be threatened against her.
Unfortunately for the prophet, Donald Trump came out victorious, beating Hillary Clinton by a wide margin 276 electoral votes to 218.
Meanwhile,a Chinese monkey and an Indian fish predicted the Republican Presidential candidate’s win correctly. A few days to the election, a Chennai fish called Chanakya III, chose to eat fish feed placed for it on a boat with Trump’s picture on it, and not from the one with Democrat Hillary Clinton’s photo on it. Chanakya-III apparently picked the Trump boat a total of seven times.
Last week, AFP reported that a Chinese monkey described as the “king of prophets” tipped Trump for the US presidency. The monkey was reportedly given a chance to pick between life-sized cut-outs of Trump and Clinton.
“After “deliberate thought” the mystic monkey chose Trump, Shiyanhu Ecological Tourism Park said in a statement on its website. Without even waiting, he congratulated the cardboard candidate with a kiss on the lips,” wrote AFP.
However, TB Joshua gave himself some room to wriggle out of this unlikely situation after saying that he saw his prophesy “10 days ago” from sunday and people who saw theres 15 days ago may have had another result. This introduces some dynamism into the “vision-seeing realm”, so the televangelist may come out to argue that those who say the vision five days earlier were able to see Trumps win.
