Juju row hits NPP

Fearing of losing the December 7, general elections, the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has resorted to mystical powers for salvation.

A party insider very close to Mr. Ayeetey Boafo, a leading member of the NPP, has told The Tide that a spiritualist from Kwanyako, a village in the Central region, was invited to the NPP headquarters in Accra to perform rituals for the party to enable them avoid a second successive defeat at the hands of their bitters rivals, the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

The juju man (name withheld for good reasons) whose delegation was led by a lady was said to have gone to the NPP headquarters at the behest of some national executive members of the party.

After consultation, this paper gathered, the fetish priest told the NPP their request was beyond his ability, however, he suggested for a more powerful spiritualist from Togo who is well endowed to meet their request.

But to get him over to Ghana here, the Kwanyako priest demanded GHC4, 000.00 for his transportation. When the party chairman, Jake Obestebi Lamptey, was asked to provide the money for the needed rituals he reportedly flew into a fit of rage, screaming that if he had that amount of money he would have used it for something better.

In his rage he was said to have driven the priest and his entourage away in a manner that angered the visitors.

The Tide gathered that some national executive members of the NPP believe the governing NDC had resorted to juju to retain power.

This influenced them to seek an antidote.

In their search for one, the NPP, according to the insider, got connected to the fetish priest who is well known at Kwanyako for his effective mystical powers.

Back home at Kwanyako, the priest reportedly informed his elders of the ordeal they suffered at the hands of the NPP.

Unhappy with the news, the people of the town allegedly resorted to removing any NPP poster in sight and vowed to vote against the party during the December elections.

They could not understand why the NPP on their own volition invited the priest to their headquarters to perform a task for them and they the same people turn to humiliate them.

Early this year, an evangelist and senior pastor of the Better Life Chapel at Prestea in the Western region, Anthony Akoto, claimed that some politicians in the country travel across the globe to seek satanic powers for election victory, favour and protection.

“Politicians who do not want to toil to clinch victory”, he said, “go for juju or magical powers to realize their dreams”.

Evangelist Akoto predicted that since Satan does not give anything for free, there would come a time when such politicians would have to pay back with their blood or that of their subjects, saying because of this many politicians would die but those who surrender totally to God would be saved.