• In Preparation For 2012 Elections

• Atta Mills Is The Real Target

Some faceless political forces in Ghana especially in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who are opposed to President John Evans Atta Mills and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are behind recent attacks on Prophet T. B. Joshua, whose demonstration of the power gifts of God in the performance of miracles leaves ordinary mortals in wonderland. The Catalyst can also state that the attacks on the renowned Nigerian Prophet are politically designed to cripple President John Evans Atta Mills and the NDC’s political fortunes in the 2012 elections.

In line with this sinister political agenda against the Nigerian pastor and President John Evans Atta Mills, the architects since the victory of the Black Satellites in the just-ended U-20 World Cup in Egypt, have been using their media acolytes conduits to launch a blistering attack on Prophet T.B Joshua. For doing absolutely nothing wrong, the NPP through is media has decided to deliberately create misconceptions about the part played by Prophet T. B. Joshua in the victory of the Satellites, and are trying hard to turn him into public ridicule.

As it is usual of his ministry’s publicity programme, prophetic directions received by Prophet T. B. Joshua concerning the Satellites final match with Brazil, which he communicated to Coach Sellas Tetteh, were posted on his website. This has been deliberately misrepresented in Ghana by the NPP and its media that has since subjected the renowned prophet to sinister attacks amidst insults and name-calling so as to ridicule him in the eyes of the Ghanaian public for political reasons.

Intelligence information available to The Catalyst clearly indicates that, contrary to the pretence that the recent media attacks on Prophet T.B. Joshua are the result of how he managed the role he played in the Satellites’ victory at the just ended U-20 Wold Cup, is the fact that the Nigerian Prophet has been targeted by some elements in the NPP for the victory of President John Evans Atta Mills over Nana Akufo-Addo in the 2008 general elections. Even though the attacks on him started on a mild note just after the last elections, his attackers could not deem a better time than this in launching a full-scale political attack on him in preparation for the 2012 elections, The Catalyst has learnt.

The name T.B. Joshua is not new to Ghanaians. But the renowned pastor has been in the news now for some purely political reasons. Though it is obvious that many Ghanaians knew him long ago, news about him was not as attractive as it is now. Prophet T.B Joshua became a media focus in Ghana when it came out prior to the 2008 elections that he was praying for then Candidate John Evans Atta Mills, flagbearer of the NDC.

Prophet T. B. Joshua however became a household name in Ghana when President Atta Mills, after his inauguration as President of Ghana, visited his church, the Synagogue Church of All Nations, in Nigeria to testify and thank God for the fulfilment of a prophecy by Prophet T. B. Joshua about him becoming President, and also to thank the Prophet for his spiritual support and prayers. It is on record that Prophet T. B. Joshua prophesied that the 2008 presidential election in Ghana was going to be determined only after three rounds of voting and the winner, President Atta Mills, would be declared in January 2009 instead of December 2008, which has been the norm since the birth of the 4 Republican constitution of Ghana.

Unfortunately, this genuine act of helping President Atta Mills has turned Prophet T. B. Joshua into an enemy of the NPP and its sympathetic press, especially Daily Guide, who turn him into a punching bag at the least opportunity. Everything about the respected prophet is now disdainfully made loathsome news by the NPP media.

From allegations of using juju, to faking his miracles and being a conman and also a fraudster, Prophet T. B. Joshua’s detractors in Ghana, would stop at nothing in their bid to tarnish the image of the Man of God, whose only crime is that he has decided to help President Atta Mills spiritually to win the elections, just like some genuine Ghanaian pastors have also done.

Prophet T. B. Joshua’s woes can therefore be traced to the fact that President Mills has chosen to seek God in his political career, as a result of which The Synagogue of All Nations founder has become a spiritual pillar behind the Ghanaian President, much to the chagrin of his NPP political detractors who undoubtedly have a sinister spiritual agenda against him.

The idea of strategically making the miracle performing pastor, who precisely foretold the process and outcome of the 2008 elections in Ghana unpopular in the country was hatched soon after the elections when the fulfilment of his prophesy was revealed in a jaw-dropping testimony by President Mills in his church in Nigeria after he was sworn-in as President following an unusually winding process of the elections, exactly as it was predicted by the Man of God several months earlier on.

President Atta Mills in his testimony stated that Prophet T. B. Joshua had prophesied to him that he would definitely emerge winner in the 2008 presidential elections and become President of Ghana but that would only happen after a third round of the presidential election which would cause the final result to be declared in January by the Electoral Commission (EC) instead of the usual December declaration.

From undertones with the NPP itself, the party did everything humanly possible both physically and spiritually but failed to entrench itself in power, a phenomenon some within it attribute to a greater spiritual force behind President Atta Mills.

President Atta Mills’ testimony at the Synagogue of All nations has confirmed this belief within the NPP. The NPP thus considers Prophet T. B. Joshua a political enemy who must be made to look a fake in the eyes of the Ghanaian public purely for the purpose of the 2012 elections, just in case he prophesises victory for President Mills again, hence the incessant throw of mud at him. From all indications, the NPP lives in morbid fear of the defeat that awaits it yet again in the 2012 general elections. This is because in conjunction with the determination by the people of Ghana to have a decent government to rule them, powerful men of God like T. B. Joshua and some genuine individual pastors and pastors’ groups like the ‘Watchers of the City,’ an umbrella group of Ghanaian pastors who also prophesied that President Atta Mills was going to win the last elections, continue to stand firm behind the President who undoubtedly will be vying for the second term of his presidency in 2012, a situation the NPP feels jittery about.