Prophet Ekong Ituen and his Hilltop Mansion Prophecies

By Osondu Ahirika

A once highly respected job that has now become a total joke..?

The above teaser popped up on Facebook yesterday.

I couldn’t help but think about the clergy, of which I am counted.

Especially prophets and deliverance ministers.

Moreso, when Prophet Ekong Ituen was in the news.

Trending for reportedly predicting, or purportedly seeing, ‘Dark Clouds’, over the Hilltop Mansion.

Speaking directly, therefore, to Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State.

Famous for botched and countless failed prophecies connected to Governorship Elections in Akwa Ibom State.

Prophet Ituen’s prophecies, almost always, bear Hilltop Mansion trademarks.

I queried his prophecy that then-Governor Udom Emmanuel would lose his second-term election bid to Obong Nsima Ekere.

I highlighted his many failed previous political permutations, which he flaunts as prophecies.

On Engr. Frank Okon.

Senator John Akpan Udoedehe.

Obong Umana Okon Umana.

Among others.

Prophet Ituen blocked me during that electioneering season being 2018.

His prophetic adrenaline gets hyperactive only during every election cycle.

Then he fades away until the next.

You can imagine how much he extorts from his vulnerable political clients who flock to him after his usual fortune-telling.

Perhaps Primate Theophilus Olabayo is his role model.

Before the 2023 polls

We saw the number of Prophets that feasted on Senator Bassey Albert of the YPP.

One even dared us to cut off his arms if Senator Albert doesn’t become Governor of Akwa Ibom in 2023.

Another based in Port Harcourt said he saw a shift in the realm of the spirit in the Hilltop Mansion with Senator Albert as the new occupant.

I lost a job during that time because I told my Principal then, that these prophecies were false.

I recall how a Uyo-based Prophetess said point blank, that if Obong Nsima Ekere doesn’t become Governor she should be disrobed as a Woman of God.

These many fallacies ridicule the body of Christ

I understand Prophet Ituen’s latest climb to the Hilltop Mansion.

Pa Edwin Clark just passed on.

In January 2024, he is said to have charged Pa Edwin Clark to take care of his health

Claiming what he sees isn’t good.

A man that was 90 plus, what is prophetic about that?

For someone who was already in the departure lounge of this life.

So now he intrudes on our privacy.

Assaults our sensibilities.

Demanding his flowers that Pa Clark passed on a year after his warning.

Ridiculous gamble.

Then, he uses that as a launch pad to the Hilltop Mansion.

He has a customised pattern for his predictions

It’s either about electoral victory or death.

Nothing else.

He keeps it hanging so the targets are enticed to seek his intercession.

Assuming without conceding that Prophet Ituen’s current prognosis of the Hilltop Mansion is right

Why go public with scaremongering?

Why not reach out privately and seek an audience with Hilltop Mansion minders?

Why not intercede in keeping with the divine obligation of 1 Timothy 2: 1 -3 which demands:

“I exhort, therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;

For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour…”

But the insatiable quest for public validation wouldn’t give that instruction.

Let me, however, remind Prophet Ituen and his likes of a proverb.

The story is told of a seer

Whose speciality was predicting who would be the next to die in the community.

Each week, the people gathered.

A mystery skull cap visible to only him descends

On the head of Whose, turn it is to die.

Then, he gleefully discloses to the people.

There came a day

He fled the gathering, screaming, ‘Not me, please’.

The cap of death was about to settle on his head.

Faced with the same medicine he had been administering to the villagers

He withered in fear.

Of course!

That was the end of the seers ministry.

Let me plead with Prophet Ituen and his ilk.

Stop unnecessarily instilling needless panic, anxiety, and fear in the hearts of people.

These frightening postulations give way to derailing, demoralising, and destabilising the families of your targets.

You activate the ‘fear trigger’ in men for your convenience and cruise.

That is hardly what God sent you.

I beseech you therefore

Stop these alarmist outbursts in the name of prophecy.

Spread faith and good news, not fear and doomsday forecasts.

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