A spiritual leader in the late 1970s was Sat Guru Maharaj Ji.Mohammed Ajirobatan was born in 1947. He predicted that in the 2004 U.S. presidential election, John Kerry will defeat George W. Bush.He warned church leaders in a news conference that same year to use donations in line with biblical values, such feeding the needy, or else they would suffer God’s wrath. “The fight against corruption must be seen as a genuine effort to stabilize Nigeria and give meaning to all,” he said during a 2008 press conference, endorsing Nuhu Ribadu as chair of Nigeria’s anti-corruption Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Nigeria’s Oyo State is where Maharaj Ji was born.He traveled between Africa and London while employed at Nigeria Airways. One Love Family, the One Love Mission, One Love, One Family, and the Divine Love Family are some of the names of the communitarian community that Maharaj Ji leads.“Satguru Maharaj Ji Village,” the group’s ashram, is located on a desolate section of the Ibadan-Lagos Expressway close to Ibadan.As a token of their devotion, its members wear badges and are vegetarians.
Former members asserted in 1989 that 200 bodies had been interred near the ashram in Iju, Lagos. When no bodies were discovered, the charges against Ji were dismissed despite his detention.
Enraged over the purported murder of a Ghanaian man by devotees, young people affiliated with the Iju Youths Progressive Union set fire to the ashram in 1999. Ji was imprisoned for several months after being charged with the crime alongside twelve of his followers. In 2000, he was acquitted once more. He had an average of twenty-five visitors every day when he was in prison.The prosecution’s lack of diligence was reprimanded by the judge. Ji was able to establish title in court despite the state governor’s attempts to close the ashram and seize the land.
He said that US President Bill Clinton’s 2000 trip to Nigeria was a component of an American plot to establish a military installation there and seize control of Africa. He claimed responsibility for the “Golden Change” that included Olusegun Obasanjo’s reelection as Nigeria’s president in 2003.
Ji stated at a news conference during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic that Nigerians needed to accept heavenly knowledge and abandon religion and the “Holy Ghost syndrome” in order to defeat the disease. He declared on December 21, 2022, that the 2023 general election would be won by the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), “He is from the South, and Nigerians are demanding that the next president come from the South.” Mohammed Abacha, Hamza al-Mustapha, and others have turned to him for spiritual direction. Prem Rawat, also known as the Perfect Master and Guru Maharaj Ji, was the leader of a group named Divine Light Mission, however Maharaj Ji denies any affiliation with him.
He is also known as the “Black Jesus” and declared himself a Living Perfect Master, Guru Maharaj Ji, in 1980. He claims to have control over every disease and issue that affects people.