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Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams says he has never gone begging any President in Ghana, Africa, or elsewhere for favours. �[I] don�t depend on them for anything, so nobody will say they made me who I am. I am what I am by the grace of God�, the charismatic Ghanaian preacher told his congregation at the headquarters of the Christian Action Faith Ministries (CAFM) in Accra on Sunday October 26, 2014. �When I prophesied over Obasanjo becoming president of Nigeria, when he became president and I went there, some of my preacher-sons in Nigeria said: �Ah Papa, why don�t you ask him for oil [an] block, he�s giving people oil blocks. Ask him for [an] oil block now�. I said: �No. God didn�t ask me to prophesy for oil [an] block, and up to today, I maintain respect with President obasanjo because I never asked him for a dime, not a dollar, he can�t stand anywhere to say: �When he was president, me, I came to Aso Rock [presidential Villa in Abuja] and asked him for a dime�. Never. He can�t�, Duncan-Williams said. He added: �No president: not president Rawlings or president Kufuor or president Prof Mills of blessed memory � no one can say, me, I came to them. No. I�ve learned to believe God�. Duncan-Williams, who has been in the charismatic movement for 38 years also said: �When I was in Liberia early this year to meet the president, the vice president and the senate; talked to them about an impending danger coming; called for prayer meetings and they started meeting; prayed few times � don�t know what happened to the prayer meeting � I never said to the president: �Madam pay for my ticket or my hotel. Never�. I was in Sierra Leone last year, same thing, never asked the president to pay for my ticket. I bought my own ticket, paid my own bills, carried money with me, [I] don�t depend on them for anything�, he emphasised.