FCT, Abuja – In December 2023/January 2024, many religious figures released prophecies about what “God told them” would happen in the new year.
This is a tradition that many people look forward to every year. Some clerics also release prophecies at any time of the year, especially when something of national importance is happening.
While some of the prophecies come to pass, several others fail to happen.
As the Year 2024 gradually winds down, TimesNow.com.ng takes a look at some of the major failed prophecies, that is, those that never happened.
On Election Day (November 5, 2024) in the United States (US), Rajeev Sharma, a practitioner of Vedic Astrology, said he “found the excellent stars” of Kamala Harris, ‘indicating the fulfilments of her ambitions’.
Sharma, an Indian, linked Harris’ rival in the American election, Donald Trump, to failure.
Sharma wrote on X (formerly Twitter):
But in the end, Harris was unsuccessful in her presidential bid.
Prophet Chinonso Emmanuel tipped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for victory in the Edo state governorship election 2024.
Recall in the build-up to the 2020 Edo governorship election, Prophet Emmanuel, in 2019, declared that he saw the “oil of continuity on Godwin Obaseki’s head”. At the time, Obaseki, the immediate past Edo governor, was seeking reelection to complete his constitutionally-allowed eight-year tenure.
Speaking in a now-distorted video posted on his known Facebook page, Prophet Emmanuel dashed the hope of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Labour Party (LP) with respect to the September 2024 election.
However, at the end of the voting, Monday Okpebholo, candidate of the APC, was declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the winner of the election. Okpebholo triumphed with 291,667 votes to defeat his closest rival, Asue Ighodalo of the PDP, who polled 247,274 votes.
Olumide Akpata, the candidate of the LP, came a distant third with 22, 763 votes.
While the LP decided to accept defeat, the PDP rejected the outcome of the poll and said it would explore all legal and democratic means to retrieve Ighodalo’s “stolen mandate”.
On November 12, 2024, Okpebholo was sworn in as the governor of Edo state. His first term in office expires in 2028. Unless a court of competent jurisdiction sacks him, he would most likely complete his first term in office.
Like Prophet Emmanuel, Prophet Abel Boma handed victory to the PDP. The prophecy turned out to be wrong.
Prophet Boma said in a video posted on his official YouTube page:
Watch the video below:
Meanwhile, a cleric based in northcentral Nigeria, Prophet Godiya Audu Adams, asked people to be prudent in their spending because “next year (2025) is not going to be funny”.
