REVEREND Godfridah Sumaili has once again stepped onto the public stage with her now-familiar sermon of spiritual exclusivity, this time declaring that President Hakainde Hichilema “has no spiritual anointing” on his life.
But one must ask: when did Rev. Sumaili receive divine appointment as the heavenly assessor of men’s anointing?
In the spirit of logical reasoning, let us inquire: 
If spiritual anointing is a gift from God, as she rightly claims, does it not then follow that only God can bestow or deny it?
And if that is so, is Rev. Sumaili’s declaration not a presumptuous trespass into divine territory?
Let us further question her consistency. When the same woman of gold served as Minister of Religious Affairs under the Patriotic Front government, she presided over some of the most morally questionable years in Zambia’s governance years marred by corruption, violence, and deceit cloaked in prayer breakfasts.
Did she not see the need then to question the “spiritual anointing” of those in power? Or was her silence itself a form of selective piety?
Moreover, her claim that the UPND government is only completing PF projects is itself hollow. If governance means continuity of public service, then should the completion of national infrastructure not be celebrated as responsible stewardship rather than dismissed as theft of credit?
Is not the resurrection of abandoned projects itself the “bringing back of dry bones to life” that Copperbelt minister Elisha Matambo alluded to?
Perhaps Rev. Sumaili forgets that the true mark of anointing is not religious theatre but moral integrity, service to the people, and humility before God.
President Hichilema’s calm leadership, economic reforms, and refusal to retaliate against his former persecutors demonstrate precisely the kind of spirit that Christ endorsed, not loud declarations of holiness but quiet strength in doing right.
Rev. Sumaili’s obsession with spiritual labelling reveals less about President Hichilema and more about the political gospel she continues to preach, one tethered not to Scripture but to the altar of partisanship.
So, let us ask again, Rev Sumaili: Who made you the custodian of God’s approval? Because the last time we checked, the fruit of a leader’s anointing is seen in the lives they uplift not in the slogans of those still bitter about losing power.
