President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday said he believes Pastor Apollo Quiboloy of Kingdom of Jesus Christ, The Name Above Every Name, Inc when he commanded the deadly Mindanao quake to stop last month.
“I believe in Pastor Quiboloy. When he said ‘stop’, eh kung nag-stop, eh di what’s the trouble?” the President said during an inauguration of a hotel in Davao.
“Stop it!” Duterte said as he imitates Quiboloy and garnering laughs from the audience.
The video was posted in “Mga Aral sa Bibliya” on Wednesday, October 30, wherein Pastor Quiboloy told he was at his room writing when he felt the magnitude 6.6 earthquake at 9 in the morning.
“Sabi ko, ‘Lindol, huminto ka.’ Huminto (I said, “Earthquake, stop.” It stopped.),” Quiboloy said on the October 30 episode of the pastor’s weekly television show “Give Us This Day.”
He said he commanded the earthquake to “stop,” and the quake obeyed him. He said he had witnesses to testify of what happened.
Quiboloy allegedly stopped an aftershock at around 11 am. He added people should thank him because if he did not stop the strong earthquake, more damages would have occurred.
The 69-year-old pastor also claims that he is “The Appointed Son of God,” as well as being “The Owner of the Universe.”
Quiboloy later became a subject of jokes and memes online. Comedian Vice Ganda was also criticized by Quiboloy’s followers after he challenged the pastor to stop the traffic in Edsa and the long-time running show “Ang Probinsyano.”
Quiboloy is known to President Duterte’s decades-long friend.