Former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda prophesied that I would be President in 2006 – Goodluck Jonathan

During the second Kenneth Kaunda Memorial public lecture in Pretoria, South Africa, Former President Goodluck Jonathan shared an anecdote about the late Kenneth Kaunda, the first President of Zambia, accurately predicting his future presidency.

Jonathan recounted that this prophecy was bestowed upon him during Kaunda’s visit to Bayelsa in 2006. At that time, Jonathan was serving as the Governor of Bayelsa state and had never contemplated the idea of becoming the President of Nigeria.

“My political journey was not the one which attracted much attention from spiritual leaders and seers because many then could not see me playing notable roles in the national affairs of my country, since I was not active in partisan politics back then.

“However, I must say it now that Kaunda in the early days of my political career, captured my political trajectory to the presidency in an accurate prophetic revelation that has continued to amaze me till this day.

“In 2006 when Kaunda had ended his visit to us in Yenagoa and was returning to Zambia, I remember seeing him off to the Port Harcourt airport in neighbouring Rivers state.

“As he stood up and was about to board a vehicle that would convey him to the aircraft, he turned back and said to me, ‘young man, you will be the president of this country one day’.

“Myself and my secretary to the state government (SSG), Amb. Boladei Igali who was with me, simply looked at each other in amazement, because the presidency was never in our dreams, at that time.

“Farfetched as these words seemed to me then, I later saw his prophecy fulfilled in my life within a decade.

“So I can say that KK was the man who saw tomorrow as it related then to my political future and fortune, as I eventually became the president of my country.”