8 Months Before Assuming That Office, I Was Diagnosed Of Cancer, Leukemia, And I Overcame It -Malomo

According to Channels TV on Sunday November 15 2026, Nigeria’s longest-serving Chaplain of the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Pastor Joseph Malomo, has revealed the personal battle that shaped his view of life, leadership and prayer, a battle with cancer just months before he entered the Villa.

The disclosure came as he defended himself against the rumour that he prayed for President Muhammadu Buhari to die. For Malomo, the accusation was not just false, it was impossible, because of what he had personally passed through before assuming office.

And you know why I believe that is so, that would be so wrong of me is because I said, 8 months before assuming that office, I had just been diagnosed of cancer, leukemia, and I overcame it. I will be the last person to want to wish any, because I saw the brother of death, if I saw the relatives, the brother, the sister, the cousin of death. So, for me…

That vivid description captured how close he came to death. Leukemia is a battle that tests body, faith and family. Having stared at death from such close range, the idea of wishing death on another person, in his words, would have been madness.

His experience gave him a different understanding of sickness in high office. He knew what it meant to be diagnosed, to fight, to pray, and to survive. That journey, he explained, made him more compassionate, not more bitter, towards anyone battling illness.

Yes, I am a cancer survivor. So, for me to do that, that would be very crazy. So, apart from that, it is only God that determines when somebody will die.

The declaration was simple and firm. Survival had taught him that life and death are not in the hands of men, no matter how powerful they are. Only God, in his belief, decides the appointed time for every person, president or ordinary citizen.

That conviction has now become the centre of his testimony. After surviving cancer and serving eight years in the Villa, Malomo presents himself as living proof that prayer, courage and medical perseverance can turn a death sentence into a story of survival.

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