Pastor Salanje eyes Malawi presidency; I am responding to God’s call

South Africa-based preacher Hastings Salanje says he will vie for the Malawi presidency in 2025.

The flamboyant pastor, famous for flaunting his fleet of expensive cars and riches on social media, told Nyasa Times in an exclusive interview that he is responding to God’s call.

Pastor Hastings Salanje  – ready to redeem and prosper Malawi

“Since is not my wish but God’s wish, then he knows what he will do for me to become the president of Malawi,” he said. “It all started in 2009 when I saw myself winning the presidential election. I was so surprised and when I told my wife, we started praying against it but the more I was praying the more I kept on dreaming about it. This year alone, I have dreamed about it twice already. So, I have discovered that I can’t fight the will of God.”

He claimed he would use his personal resources to run the presidency and will not receive a salary.

“That’s where being sent by God means, when you are called to serve you don’t look at what you can get but at what you can give. As a pastor, I have never received a salary but I have used my own resources to run the church. I pay 90% of the bills of the church and television so I can do the same when I am in government and that is the reason that I want God to bless me first before I join politics.”

Salanje, who runs God’s Chapel ministries from Johannesburg, dismissed assertions that fellow preacher President Lazarus Chakwera’s ascension to the presidency has given him confidence to try his luck.

“I am not coming in because I am a pastor, and if we choose our president because he is a pastor then Malawians were wrong because a pastor can’t lead a nation; a person to lead a nation must think and act beyond pastoral work. Malawians must choose me as a God-sent and a businessman, because Malawi needs a businessman to run the country and not a pastor or educated person,” he said.

Salanje noted that Malawi is rich but most of the money in Malawi goes to serve the president and his henchmen than it does to the poor.

“It is not how much you get but how you manage the little you get. If you allow people to steal and you spend too much on the little you have then definitely you will go broke, Malawi is broke because of our leaders falling to manage the little we have.”

He claimed that Malawi will prosper under his leadership because of the grace he has from God.

“Before God prospered Egypt through Joseph he first prospered the House of Potiphar. I have seen the hand of God throughout my life since 1991, and I believe God will do the same during my presidency,” he said.

He noted that the country needs a skilled businessman to steer it to prosperity.

“Malawi needs a businessman to run it because running a government is all about profiting a country to prosper. Check my past, the past helps people to know the future of the person. The problem with Malawians when choosing a leader is that they don’t check the past of the person, they just believe in anything that the person is saying without checking his past.”

He assured: “Don’t give up, we can amend the future of Malawi, Dubai was nothing in 1991 but today they have a world class city. We may not become like them but surely we can do something for Malawi to become big and it must start with us.”

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26 replies on “Pastor Salanje eyes Malawi presidency; I am responding to God’s call”

  1. Sad that we have people like these who think Malawi’s problem is insufficient charity and lack of a philanthropic president. But since we have a section of the population that is addicted to handouts that is why we are seeing some folks praising this crap.

  2. He hasn’t produced a touching point to the Malawians,by the way as a citizen of malawi he hv the Wright to do so

  3. As he has stated, its all about dreams . Good or bad dreams , it ends there. No doubt he is still dreaming ..this time..day dreaming..

  4. This is damning condemnation of the current guy we elected. He is basically saying if a dull, clueless guy can do it, so can Salanje do it. This man is saying, the current guy is doing such a poor job you might as well try my empty head as well. He he he

  5. He is a leader and can change things for the better. He can provide the leadership the country has lacked for many years. You have my backing Pastor

  6. Mmmh panonso a siyana za Mulungu ayi ayi. Ndiponso kudzikweza kumeneko kukuonetseratu kuti school mulibe. Sitiloranso pano a Malawi. Wina ndi uyu chakwera wati chitatha manyazi dziko lonse lapansi. Ndipo a choka chaka chino sichitha yi. Tsogolo wopanda nzeru. Ngati inuyonso a Salanje. Petilizani za chalichi zomwezo.
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  7. Kkkkkkk Pastor Salanje since Chakwera won you think you will make it? Aaah no and you say Malawi needs a businessma to lead the country who set that criterion for Malawi’s presidency and apa zangowotseratu kuti you are not there for it but showbiz. Secondly Malawi was once led with Muluzi a chair he is a businessman so thinking that you are the first businessman to hit the political circles then you are on the wrong! Governing a nation is administrative not business, am sorry!

  8. Kikkkkkkk tiyenazo wawa, kuziyesa zikumatheka ndithu. ndiye tiyambile pati pamenepa?
    

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