A man who says he is a prophet of God, Samuel Ofori, has advised the other eighteen presidential aspirants of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to abolish their dream of succeeding President John Agyekum Kufuor because God has anointed Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, their opponent, as the next successor to the throne.

Such is Prophet Ofori's conviction in the matter that he has composed a song in praise of Nana Akufo-Addo and to spread the message that he is the best choice for the ‘Kukurudu’ family.

If he is to be believed, then the GH¢250,000 paid by each of the candidates will go into the drain and will only be used by the party to facilitate the December 22 delegates' congress, where Nana Akufo-Addo is expected to be crowned the flag bearer.

According to Prophet Ofori, God revealed to him two years ago when most of the aspirants had not yet made up their minds to contest the candidature that the Abuakwa South MP, whose father had been president in Ghana from 1970 to 1972, would move to the Flagstaff House Presidential Palace in January of 2009.

The man of God supported his vision with quotations from the Bible, explaining that, in the first vision, he saw Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II who, according to Ofori- represents authority, decorating the aspirant with his charms and amulets and giving him some tutorials on governance after placing him on his royal throne.

He said, later when he realised that Nana Akufo-Addo was not an Ashanti, it confirmed that, indeed, the ex-Foreign Minister had been ordained to lead the party to the next election. Samuel Ofori, who refused to disclose his church, said he hailed from Berekum in the Brong Ahafo Region and was called into priesthood in 1992 when he was a member of the defunct People's Militia working at Sukusuku, a town in the Sefwi area of the Western Region.

In the second vision, the man of God recounted, he saw Nana Akuffo-Addo being carried shoulder high and being followed by many people who wore red headbands with blood flowing from their heads which, he Ofori said, signified justice. In the same dream, he added, he saw the man destined to rule Ghana with the NPP and Ghana flags in both hands. In the NPP flag was written "Love and Obedience" while the Ghana flag had the inscription "Humility". Many of Akufo-Addo's followers, he said, carried placards with the inscription "National Celebration."

Prophet Samuel Ofori, who claimed he had documented the visions, reported that in the third dream he saw that there was confusion among the aspirant's supporters.

He initially hesitated to disclose to Nana Akufo-Addo, lest the impression be wrongly created that a priest was interfering in NPP's affairs, he says. He also tried to avoid a situation where he would only disclose it after the prophecy and be suspected of taking advantage to reap where he had not sown.

He claimed that, for nearly two years, he avoided seeing Nana Akufo-Addo but the vision kept appearing to him and he sensed it as a warning sign from God that he should take the bold step to reveal it to Nana Akufo-Addo.

He told the host of Hot FM Radio's political programme Hot Ball, Kofi Adomah, last Saturday evening that there are three main ways by which God communicates with humans (Isaiah 15: I) and lastly he speaks to the nation (as stated in Jeremiah 11: 6.)

He did not leave the National Democratic Congress alone as he alleged that before the opposition party's Koforidua congress, he had a similar vision that Prof. Atta Mills was going to win but, there again, he was hesitant to tell Ghanaians with the same good reason of wanting to shy away from partisan politics of the country.

Though Prophet Ofori is the very person the Lord spoke to about Akufo-Addo and Mills, he could tell categorically that Akufo-Addo will beat Atta Mills at the general election stressing that 2008 is again not for Prof. Atta Mills.

What put a humorous twist to the prophetic message was Ofori's disclosure that, when Nana wins next year's election and offers him appointment, he would hurriedly grab it in good faith and work hard to justify it. He called on his colleague pastors to accept political appointments, since as he put it; "If you don't accept it and wrong people are appointed don't blame them if they disappoint you."



Source: The Heritage