NDC Seeks Juju

THE NATIONAL Democratic Congress' (NDC's) quest to regain political power has sent the party's agents chasing spiritualists in neighbouring Burkina Faso and other countries in the sub-region for 'juju', an African supernatural charm also known as voodoo in the Caribbean.

The main opposition party has reportedly resorted to the esoteric path to fortify its efforts to sweep the December polls, DAILY GUIDE has reliably gathered, as it moves from country to country for spiritual intervention.


The idea of using voodoo, distressing as it is to the NDC flagbearer, Professor John Evans Atta Mills who is an avowed Methodist, was spearheaded by a mulatto-skinned former Member of Parliament, who travelled to Burkina-Faso last month where he was allegedly stranded.


The former MP, who recently caused a stir in the party and known to have always handled juju matters for the NDC, was reported to have told his party that he had contacted a powerful spiritualist whose prognosis showed that the party's flagbearer, Professor John Evans Atta Mills, was not destined to wear a presidential crown.


The party's lead juju-agent, as a result, reportedly convinced the NDC hierarchy that they needed to find some 'ways and means' of reversing the prognosis so that the presidential crown could sit on the head of Prof. Mills and therefore demanded GH¢4,000 for the trip to Burkina.


Towards that end, he suggested the name of a more powerful spiritual Grandmaster in Burkina Faso who he said was capable of getting the 'ways and means' done.

NDC deep-throats say the former MP, a light-skinned Muslim with hairy and muscular body from a flood-prone area in Accra, made the party cough out the amount with which he embarked on the voyage to Burkina Faso, in search of the 'ways and means'.


On reaching Burkina-Faso, the former MP encountered problems and accordingly sent an SOS message to the party back home that he needed an additional $4,000 and that the amount should be sent to him because he had exhausted the money on him and was stranded.


The request for additional cash was received with trepidation by the party, especially at the time the NDC was facing money problems.


The party, on learning about the situation of their juju-agent, asked him to seek help from a Good Samaritan at Wa in the Upper West Region of Ghana, but that did not go down well with the stranded juju-agent who insisted he wanted the money to be sent to him.


The agent was reported to have retorted angrily that he needed the $4,000 to bail himself out of the trouble.

The tango over the $4,000 juju-cash frustrated the juju-agent so much that he announced his resignation from the party even before he returned to Ghana, but was later prevailed upon to rescind his decision, and peace was restored.


Prior to the hunt for 'ways and means', the protracted illness of the flagbearer was attributed to spiritual forces such that he moved from one prophet to the other in search of God's cure and protection, a search which took him to Nigeria.


Recently, he was seen at the Synagogue of All Nations Church of the popular Nigerian miracle worker, Prophet Temitope B. Joshua.


The General Apostle of the Royal House Chapel International in Accra, Rev. Sam Korankye Ankrah, had also told DAILY GUIDE in an earlier interview that he, at a point, prayed for Mills to overcome his ill-health.


Meanwhile, the founder of NDC, Jerry John Rawlings had openly professed his strong belief in juju by constantly asking people to swear by the Antoa Nyama shrine as the only prove of truth.