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Electioneering campaign in Ghana has become a strategic, organisational, marketing and spiritual exercise.
Beyond tasking experts in manifesto development and assigning top echelon and grassroots noisemakers to pipe propaganda to appeal to hearts and minds of the largely illiterate electorate, the flagbearer and their corners are supposed to consult spiritually to access victory.
That has been the practice from the days of the Provisional National Defence Council(PNDC) into the National Democratic Congress(NDC) from 1992 till date
If that had been the new culture, it also infected the JA Kufour administration and the succeeding JEA Mills administration, finding vibrant rhythm into the political space down to party and primaries delegate as well as Assemblyman and woman levels.
Guidance
Among the leading political parties therefore, it has been a mix of traditional religion in which blood sacrifices are made, with spiritual angles that has pastors and prophets visibly calling the shots in prediction and guiding flagbearers to perform directions.
The argument is that not only is man a spiritual being and God the author of issues of life and death, but that for the nation to progress, the flagbearer needs some spiritual support.
It was that notion that put personalities such Rev. Isaac Bempah, Prophet Kumchacha, Rev Opambuor as well as Angel Obinim and others in the limelight.
Before, the stalwarts were Bishops Duncan Williams, Dag Heward Mills and Agyin Asare.
Particularly during the December 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections, the level of attrition between the two political parties was such that flagbearers dig deep into themselves to seek spiritual support in dramatic ways.
Intriguingly, in equally dramatic ways, the elections – presidential and parliamentary – saw dramatic results from Greater Accra, through the Eastern, Ashanti and Brong Ahafo region, down to the Western and Central Regions.
All across the country, adrenalin levels were up by notches, with angry Ashanti not motivated enough by the exited government in projects to do what it has patriotically been doing for the NPP.
Again, to portray how spiritual party guns take elections, the NPP leadership and particularly its Chief Executive and General Secretary, in defending the loss owned up that it failed a spiritual test.
Rewards?
The Inquirer believes it is against that background that those who may have risked their lives and made spiritual breaking exercises to see the NDC through would feel justified making demands on the party and government and particularly the major beneficiary, which is the President, John Dramani Mahama.
Without implying that patriotic duties ought to be substantially rewarded, The Inquirer believes, again, that some support may have already reached the spiritual leaders engaged in this spiritual exercise that needs sustaining for the gains to show and trickle down to the youth, with hopes that foundations laid will be abiding.
The Inquirer further believes any spirit of frustration being exhibited by the spiritual stewards of the President is unfortunate, considering where they stand.
Patience
For a party barely 120 days in office, we also believe any threat to undo gains that inured only dents the integrity of the spiritual giants and puts question marks around the source of their power, in the estimation of untutored members of the public.
We would do our civic duty of urging these gallant spiritual soldiers to be patient as the President needs peace to carry out the heavy burden of uniting the nation and rolling out programmes that benefit everybody together with the stewards who denied themselves sleep to keep vigil for the spiritual benefit of the President.
We also plead with them to manage social media propaganda that indicates threats to undo the President. Such propaganda is in no one’s interest.
For those who know the President, The Inquirer believes the rewards would come sooner or later.
