Fani-Kayode: What TB Joshua told me when I was locked up in Kuje Prison

Femi Fani-Kayode, former Minister of Aviation, has narrated a rare encounter with Prophet TB Joshua, late founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN).

Fani-Kayode, who been tried severally for alleged corruption and abuse of office, said in 2016, Joshua told him that he would be released from prison and it happened.

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Fani-Kayode spoke at the funeral rites of Joshua, who died on June 5, 2021.

“I know of at least 8 people that Prophet TB Joshua prayed into power. He had friends everywhere and many loved him.”

“When I was in Kuje cell in 2016, TB Joshua called me and told me that I was going to be released from the cell in three days.

“Before then I had never had any encounter with him, we had never met or spoken before. True to his words, three days later, I was released. Since then, I have never returned back to the cell and I will never return,” he said.

Other dignitaries at the occasion were Otunba Gani Adams, Aare Onakankafo of Yorubaland, who hails from Joshua’s Akoko in Ondo State; King Willard Mswati Gomani of Malawi, Nollywood stars, Femi Branch and Ronke Oshodi Oke, among others.