The
General Overseer of The Synagogue Church Of All Nations, Prophet
Temitope Balogun Joshua, says Nigeria’s Super Eagles would defeat
Burkina Faso in Sunday’s final of the Africa Cup of Nations in South
Africa.
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Joshua, who warned Eagles’ coach, Stephen Keshi to avoid conceding a
late minute goal in their AFCON Group C opener against the Burkinabe,
told P.M.NEWS that Nigeria’s case in the Nations Cup final this year is
like the biblical Jacob who wrestled with God, saying that “on Sunday
we’ll tell God unless He gives us our heart’s desire we’ll not let Him
go.
“The
cloud is darker over Nigeria’s Super Eagles, but with God we’ll scale
through. If it were not to be the final, anything could have happened.
The first match we played with Burkina Faso, it was just by the grace of
God that it ended in a draw.
“On
Sunday, our opponents will play defensively because they will be
looking out for penalty shootout at the end of the game. They will also
play through three of their strikers upfront; one of them very tall and
huge player and two others.
“What
I’m seeing I don’t want to say it because it would be too frightening,
but I want to assure that we’ll scale through the challenge on Sunday.”
The
prophet who established a football club, My People FC to groom young
players, however, warned the Eagles not to allow Burkina Faso to score
first in the final, saying that “if this happened the Burkinabe would
fall back to defend the goal, which will be very dangerous for our team.
I still repeat that no matter the situation, we’ll scale through.
“The
Burkina Faso that we played in the group stage will not be the same
team we’ll play on Sunday, even though some of their players are out of
the squad due to injuries. They are still a team. But I hope for
celebration.”
Joshua
said as the giant of Africa, Nigeria last won the Nations Cup 13 years
ago, which was too long ago for a great football nation like Nigeria.
“I
think God should give us this cup to make the youths of this country
happy. Winning this cup at this time of religious intolerance and
violence will calm down the youths. I want to appeal to all Nigerians to
pray for Eagles’ victory. I would have told you the scoreline but I
would rather delay it till Sunday morning in order not psychologically
distract the players and their coaches and not to demoralise the losing
team.”
Prophet
Joshua concluded that he would not want Keshi and his team to come to
his church to celebrate their victory after the match because he is not
the only one praying for the Eagles to win.
“My
voice may be the one louder among the men of God in the country but
this doesn’t mean that the team should come to my church to celebrate. I
would rather prefer that they celebrate their victory with all
Nigerians,” he said.
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