"Prof Kwesi Yankah Writes: In A Comfortable Leeaaaad!!!"

" Prof Kwesi Yankah\u00a0Writes: In A Comfortable Leeaaaad!!! \r\nThe past Sunday produced lively scenes in the church. Somehow, the colour white dominated congregation wear throughout the nation and may have signalled one thanksgiving or the other. Suspense heightened when our Pastor asked for extra prayers because \u2018Today is the 1st of November;\u2019 that was a fatal tongue slip which found the congregation exchanging uneasy glances, and wondering whether Pastor was not in a hurry for\u00a0 December 7 elections.\r\n\r\n1st November would have meant five more weeks of palpitation and suspense; and that\u2019s why Pastor\u2019s instant correction was almost followed by an enthusiastic response of \u2018Amen, thank you Jesus!\u2019\r\n\r\nYet the much-awaited Saturday, which has been so long in coming, is about the church as well as politics; for Ghana\u2019s 4th Republic has reached a point where it could be said, \u2018Show me your Church and I will show you your Party.\u2019 Is your Church the Bishop with a bushy hair? Oh it\u2019s clear: \u2018Eye Zu, Eye Za;\u2019 Or is your Bishop the Pastor with dark hair and grey beard? Of course, he is \u2018Eeshi Rado Rado!\u2019 Indeed no matter how hard pastors try to conceal their party colors, their congregations know it from divine gossip.\r\n Political analysis books \r\nKnowing this, people looking for new places to worship have made careful calculations to avoid making wrong choices: for example wearing an all-white kaftan to church this coming Sunday (the day after), only to realize the entire congregation is in black. The reason?\r\n\r\n\u2018Our church is mourning. Pastor\u2019s prophecy developed a hitch partly due to climate change and was not fulfilled; and since he threatened setting himself ablaze should his prophecy go wrong, we are not sure whether he is simply late coming today, or he is still consulting His Maker.\u2019\r\n\r\nPastor had indeed assured his candidate there was no cause for alarm, since he was \u2018in a comfortable lead.\u2019\r\n\r\nAs for the phrase \u2018comfortable lead,\u2019 the 2016 electoral experience has given it a bad name. When one party officer announced to jubilant party supporters that their Party was in \u2018a comfortable lead\u2019 at the end of collation, he meant the opposite and had to take to his heels after he broke the good news. 2024 Flagbearers that have been assured to be \u2018in a comfortable lead\u2019 by prophets and pollsters, better advise themselves and begin weeping over their comfortable lead; for the duty of pollsters these days, is to simply \u2018poll-down\u2019 rival parties, and \u2018poll-up\u2019 sponsors whose batteries are about to die.\r\n News-related merchandise \r\nAs for the prophetic world, it has now become a spiritual stock market, where yield responds to market forces; and there could be several characters that bear similar surnames as \u2018God.\u2019 This explains why God, through His prophet could completely rule out a flagbearer today, then change His mind and declare the same flagbearer as winner the next day. I am indeed surprised the social media has avoided screaming headlines like: \u2018The Supreme God Makes a U Turn,\u2019 with reference to Reverend Owusu Bempah\u2019s God.\r\n\r\nOne respected Pastor, Mensa Otabil, feels so scandalized he has bitterly lamented recent developments in charismatic churches. Hear his words:\r\n\r\n\u2018More and more, the congregation is losing confidence in us Men of God. If you call yourself a Prophet, it\u2019s almost like a title meaning \u2018Con Man.\u2019 How can we take and abuse such a sacred title that Isaiah had, that Jeremiah had, that Ezekiel had, that Daniel had. We have so commoditized and cheapened it that this noble title almost means Con Man.\u2019\r\n\r\nWhat happens the day after, if Saturday\u2019s voting contradicts what a prophet has said? The great \u2018prophet of state\u2019 who has pre-anointed JDM as winner, has decided to quit doing the work of God if his prophecy fails; Madame \u2018Agradaa\u2019 a potent lady prophet who has prophesied victory for DMB, has threatened she would abandon Christ and return to trickster days she left behind in traditional worship. Another prophet earlier said, \u2018set my church ablaze,\u2019 if it\u2019s not DMB, leaving out the truth that he worships in an abandoned classroom. A bigger surprise came when a Member of Parliament on TV called on the Studio crew to set him ablaze should his flagbearer DMB fail to win. Then comes the famous Global Analytics, a pollster, who is so sure of JDM he declared him to be \u2018in a comfortable lead\u2019 as far back as 2022, and still sticks to his word. The gentleman has put his life on the line.\r\n\r\nThe agenda behind this new development is unknown, but it could simply be a dramatized plea for sympathy votes: \u2018if you don\u2019t want your prophet or pollster to be laid in state this Christmas, simply vote for his Choice.\u2019 But one can as well guess the final outcome in all this. Call the phone number of your false prophet or pollster after Saturday, and be ready for a recorded response:\r\n\r\nSorry, you have called the wrong number."

"Prof Kwesi Yankah Writes: In A Comfortable Leeaaaad!!!"

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