Duterte believes Quiboloy stopped Mindanao quake
Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 13:38:31 +0000
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Friday believed his good friend Pastor Apollo Quiboloy when he claimed he stopped one of the three deadly earthquakes that jolted parts of Mindanao in October.
In his speech at the opening of Acacia Hotel in Davao City, Duterte wished he had the same power to stop corrupt officials in the government.
“I believe in Pastor Quiboloy. When he said stop, e kung nag stop, eh di what’s the trouble? Stop it. Eh kung nagkataon talagang nagstop,” Duterte said.
“If I can only have that power doon sa mga kurakot na stop, kasi alam mo dito ang Pilipino hindi mo talaga madala sa pakiusapan,” he added.
Quiboloy, the founder of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, had said he was drinking coffee in Samal when he told the magnitude 6.6 quake that originated off Tulusan town to stop.
“Sabi ko, ‘Lindol, huminto ka.’ Huminto (I said, ‘Earthquake, stop.’ It stopped),” Quiboloy said on the October 30 episode of “Give Us This Day,” a weekly television show produced and aired by the pastor’s religious sect.
“Pasalamat kayo sa akin kasi kung hindi ko pina-stop ‘yun, marami kayong magigiba diyan, mamamatay kayo (You should be grateful to me because if I did not direct the earthquake to stop, a lot of your homes would be destroyed and you would have died),” he added.
The 69-year-old pastor rose to nationwide prominence in 2016 as Duterte’s decades-long friend.
Quiboloy had said his friendship with Duterte goes way back to when his congregation was just starting out with 15 members.
The pastor had admitted giving properties, a house, and a vehicle to Duterte. He also lent choppers and other aircraft during the 2016 presidential campaign. CATHERINE S. VALENTE