This pastor’s intellect is unparalleled: God indeed has no hand in universal suffrage

I could not agree more with the erudite pastor, Dr Mensa Otabil for aptly asserting that God does not nominate the so-called prophets to choose presidents of a nation (emphasis mine).

Dr Mensa Otabil could not have said it any better: indeed, the isolated thinker’s notion of Jehovah God’s absolute control in a system which depends solely on universal suffrage (the democratic right of all sound adult citizens to vote in an election) is somewhat nebulous, I must stress.

Even if Jehovah God is in control, we are not to rest in His divine providence but to exhibit His character in the choices we make as a people.

My dear reader, political leaders may emerge under the providence of Jehovah God, in so far as we gleefully pick them, we will be held responsible for whether they are a sort of people who can claim birth right to steadfast adherence to moral or ethical principles or not.

Given the circumstances, it is quite erroneous for Ex-President Mahama to pontificate that it was God who made NDC lose to the NPP in the 2016 general elections in order for Ghanaians to differentiate between ‘water and alcohol’.

More so, it is quite unfortunate for any prophet to proclaim somewhat spuriously that Mahama is vying for the presidency because he owes God a duty to redeem the ‘suffering’ Ghanaians (emphasis mine).

The all-important question every discerning Ghanaian should be asking the Men of God is: did the redeemer Mahama manage to redeem the poor and disadvantaged Ghanaians from the extreme economic bondage in the eight years of the NDC administration?

Men of God, may I also crave your indulgence for a moment longer and ask: does the all-knowing God choose leaders for the advanced countries or it is only in Ghana?

In recent times, some of us have been listening and reading, albeit with utter incredulity to the so-called Men of God and the loyalists of the opposition NDC’s incoherent and somewhat impetuous argument that the NPP administration has messed the economy, and therefore God has predestined Mahama to return to the Jubilee House in 2024 to redeem Ghanaians.

It is rather unfortunate for the so-called prophets to keep hiding behind the biblical narratives and put words in God’s mouth.

Unfortunate, but true, the endless invocation of God’s name in every facet of life in Ghana has been the norm.

In Ghana today, all sorts of people have made it a habit of hiding behind religion and shamefully proselytising and hoodwinking unsuspecting truth seekers.

Yes, the pretentious Men of God have succeeded in proselytizing and fleecing unsuspecting truth seekers, who only want adulterated, more 'palatable' forms of Truth, watered down and compromised for convenience.

The political prophets would often seek refuge in the Holy Book and try to manipulate a section of the voting public into accepting that God has ordained former President Mahama to lead the nation in 2025.

Of course, the manipulating Men of God will always succeed in brainwashing some gullible truth seekers who doubled up as eligible voters in accepting such a red herring.

Well, if we were to accept the so-called prophets' somewhat preposterous biblical narratives that it is God who predestines every leader, then, we may infer for example, that the late Saddam Hussein of Iraq was enstooled by God. And what was his fate following his perceived shenanigans? Wasn’t he brought down to his knees by God? He was indeed humiliated.

The all-important question we should be asking the political prophets then is: did the Omnipresent God also ordain leaders like Milosevic of Serbia, Charles Taylor of Liberia, Daddy Iddi Amin of Uganda, Mengistu of Ethiopia, Neto of Angola, Najibullah of Afghanistan, who brought nothing but socio-economic anguish to their citizens as it happened in President Mahama’s administration?

In fact, if those leaders were ordained by God to lead their respective nations, then they failed woefully and were dethroned by God accordingly.

Strangely, former President Mahama and his teeming supporters are refusing to acknowledge the fact that his calamitous errors in judgement amid rampant corruption, untold economic hardships and business crippling dumsor largely contributed to his 2016 humiliating election defeat, but not God who made him lose.

How can Mahama blame God for his rejection by discerning Ghanaians when his sibling Ibrahim Mahama allegedly refused to pay import taxes to the tune of over GH¢12 million?

Why must Mahama blame God for his historic defeat when he egregiously gave away 58% of Ghana’s bauxite to his sibling to the utter disgust of discerning Ghanaians?

How could former President Mahama fecklessly give apologists like Madam Akua Donkor of Ghana Freedom Party (GFP) two four-wheel drive cars and a luxury bungalow (estimated to cost a staggering US$470,000) for no work done, and then turn around and blame God for his historic election defeat?

Why must former President Mahama blame God for his humiliating defeat when he wilfully dragged an economic growth of 14% in 2011 to a miserable 3.4% in the absence of the pernicious coronavirus and Russia/Ukraine impasse?

God could not have caused Mahama’s defeat when he abysmally raised Ghana’s total debt from GH¢9.5 billion in 2009 to a staggering GH¢122.4 billion by December 2016 in the absence of insidious coronavirus and Russia/Ukraine intractable conflict.

Mahama cannot blame God for his defeat when he dreadfully reduced the GDP from GH¢47 billion in 2011 to GH¢40 billion by December 2016.

How can Mahama blame God when the agricultural sector grew consistently in the negative?

God could not have masterminded Mahama’s defeat when the industry sector grew appallingly.

How can Mahama blame God for his defeat when he egregiously ‘consumed all the meat on the bone?’

The fact of the matter is that ex-President Mahama thinks Ghanaians still suffer from chronic memory loss and can keep taking everyone else for granted.