T. B. Joshua publicly appear at the inauguration. Nigeria's former President Goodluck Jonathan visited The SCOAN in September 2014 following the tragic building collapse of a guesthouse within the church premises. After Jonathan conceded defeat to Muhammadu Buhari in Nigeria's historic 2015 elections, Joshua controversially claimed he had warned him of his impending electoral defeat, an assertion later corroborated by one of Jonathan's aides. A BBC Africa journalist once questioned whether Joshua was “the most powerful man in Africa” due to his alleged influence in the African political sphere. Days after the late John Atta Mills became President of Ghana in 2009, his
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