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Mahama, Does God Ordain Presidents?

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  • DOUBLE STANDARDS 10 years ago

    WHY DO YOU THINK YOU CAN SPEAK FOR GOD???!! THIS WHOLE ARTICLE IS A BLASPHEMY!!! YOU SHOULD LET GOD DO HIS THING. ARE YOU SERIOUS??? HMMMM.... BE CAREFUL!!!!

  • GODS HANDY WORK! 10 years ago

    Mahama was just a Vice President at a time when Northerners lost all hope of the presidency. All they got was the Vice President for votes! And behold, the Lord called our beloved father Ata home and John had to assume the ...
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  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    pepeni like all evil men in history is saying its God who gave him victory , Hitler , Stalin and all the intrinsically evil men including Satan also claimed the same. pepeni has put only his own Muslim pepefuo in charge of al ...
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  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

    Thanks for reading and all the comments. Unfortunately, I am unable to respond to some of the comments individually.

    I will like to clear some misconceptions. First, let me put on record that I did not post this article be ...
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  • Nyansasem 10 years ago

    In most democratic Nations, the constitution talks about separation of State and Church, but I am yet to see or hear where the constitution bans FAITH in most of these democratic Nations. So the fact that someone like Mahama ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

    This is what I wrote and was published on 21 Dec. 2012 by various sites. It is still topical and speaks for itself and very predictive (not prophetic) of what the Mahama regime would turn out like if my Xmas lists were not pr ...
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  • Sankofa 10 years ago

    Yes.

  • FK 10 years ago

    This time you got the name correctly written. I should congratulate you for that. It may sound petty but these things can be very important even if you are not a professional journalist.

    Okoampah goes into excesses in man ...
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  • FK 10 years ago

    Commenting your getting Akufo-Addo's name rightly spelt.

  • jb 10 years ago

    Ghana should stop insulting the president...NPP should stop the campaign to destabilize the country....

  • Kwaku Mireku 10 years ago

    Kwasia, have you forgotten the devil is aimed at destroying what's ever good for humankind? And that's exactly the line the NPP is towing.

  • K. Boateng 10 years ago

    Ata Kofi, did we hear Akuffo Addo/NPP saying the battle (2012 elections) was the Lord's and went to all corners of Ghana organizing vigils, all nights and prayer camps? Would Akuffo Addo have been ordained by God if he had wo ...
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  • Kwame Wi 10 years ago

    Uncle Kofi Ata has already dealt with that Mr.

  • sam 10 years ago

    your understanding of leadership is so mean. Is God who chooses good leaders for a country.So you have to believe that, the will of the people is the will of God

  • K. Boateng 10 years ago

    Ata Kofi must read both Books of Samuel in the Bible to acquiant himself with how God chooses leaders.

  • Oba Nyansani Baako Pe In Ghana! 10 years ago

    Kofi Boateng, if I may understand you very well then I am telling you that if Mahama is chosen by God then God actually appointed him to come and destroy Ghana. Do you agree with me? Come back again and I have something vital ...
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  • ABBEY 10 years ago

    ATA KOFI,YOU'RE A LEARNED MAN BUT IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE ONE OF THOSE WHO THINK THAT THE WORLD CAME INTO BEING THROUGH EVOLUTION. YOU DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THERE'S A CREATOR OUT THERE. FOR YOUR INFORMATION, MR ATA,IF PROVIDENCE D ...
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  • Victor A. Young 10 years ago

    John Mahama is simply a "tiiif" and nothing else! "Okronfour" John "Sledge Hammer" Mahama, who wants to impose himself on Ghanaians.

    It's so pathetice to note John Mahama after stealing the ballot through the help of the ...
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  • Agyeman. 10 years ago

    Mahama was indeed ordained by God to occupy the biggest office in Ghanaland.Anyone with an issue on that needs to go back to Togo,Burkina Faso or Cote de Ivoire.

  • Yaw Amofa 10 years ago

    Your bloody NPP covered their campaign vehicles with bible quotations, yet you fools dont even believe in the bible! It is good that discerning Ghanaians rocognised your 419 scam quickly and voted NDC.

  • Julius Asiedu-Young 10 years ago

    You know the bible, explain to me, in the First and Second book of Samuel. Samuel did die in the first book, but still write the second book and also write about king David and king Soul, Explain to us.

  • Loretta 10 years ago

    Yep Kofi Ata.

  • John G 10 years ago

    Pls. Read Romans 13:1-7 Thank you.

  • Nana Egyir Aggrey 10 years ago

    Many Ghanaians use the name 'GOD' for wrong reasons-when they steal they ask God for forgiveness,when they lie they ask for forgiveness.God the heavenly father will always forgive our sins,and people like John Mahama has many ...
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  • Futurama 10 years ago

    This is the problem with Africa. We attribute everything to God. Even if you stole state money and become rich, it is the will of God. The dirty streets of Accra? It is the will of God. Fire destroying markets? - it is the w ...
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  • simple truth 10 years ago

    Mahama your statement is CHILDISH.So again, God ordained you to tell others, to VOTE WITHOUT BEING VERIFIED.May GOD forgive you, and LAERN to behave as an ELECTED PRESIDENT.

  • Gonzalez 10 years ago

    The full meaning of GHANA is "God has avoided Nana again". This article is rubbish. The writer is trying to unleash the devil on Ghana. Remain where you are.

  • simple truth 10 years ago

    Mahama this is the BIG WHY people suspect something about MILLS death because you say you were ordained by GOD to be PRESIDENT.

  • Okonko Palm 10 years ago

    Sometimes Kofi, undoubtedly a good writer, tries unnecessary too hard to look fair and objective as a balance to the political divide.As it were he occasionally crosses the line of sound judgment just to appease all.

    To st ...
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  • Julius Asiedu-Young 10 years ago

    In the old days, The Lord choose Moses, Aaron, King Soul, King David, Samuel etc. But let me make it clear, in this new world, It is not the Lord Who choose pastors, pop, elders, presidents, judge and so on. make sure you are ...
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  • kululu 10 years ago

    Deep in Mahama's heart, he knows he didn't win by votes, and according to the will of the people. What he knows is that he has become president all of a sudden by some kind of twist of fate, thus, his sermon on the mount at M ...
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  • Oba Nyansani Baako Pe In Ghana! 10 years ago

    The point is that, Mahama never ever thought that he could get to that position. Besides, when you get something precious that you did not work hard for it you may not know how to protect it well and that is what Mahama is do ...
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  • Kobena 10 years ago

    Good write-up, Kofi,

    The most irritating aspect of it all is that these politicians who invoke the name of God at every turn, are not even faithful to the God they claim to worship. Fortunately, the Lord has given us a lo ...
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  • CHAMPION 10 years ago

    THIS BLAMING ALL COMES FROM BAWHMIA THE ONLY IDIOT CAW NORTHERN REGION HAS EVER HAVE, FIGHTING TO TAKE POWER FROM YOUR OWN BROTHER FOR DIRTY BASTURDS. IT IS NOT YOU BUT YOUR FATHER WHO BORN YOU BY MISTAKE. SHAME.

  • Appletus 10 years ago

    One would have thought after reading this article that Atta is an atheist. But for his use of "OMG" allowed us to wonder and think otherwise.
    From a religious point of view, we call God's name, invoke His name for favors. Th ...
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  • Cee 10 years ago

    He is stil e presidents of Ghana if u lk it or nt until e case is settle

  • Pelicles 10 years ago

    We queue to vote to elect one of us as a leader and what has God got to do with that?

    When we talk about a president, we should stop trying to put God in the middle of it. In the Biblical times where the people of Israel a ...
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  • mensah abrampa 10 years ago

    All local bred charlatans, especially those of the priestly fraternity and lately politicians have one thing in common. They know the poor and the least educated among us are helplessly susceptible to deception. Most ghanaian ...
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  • Appletus 10 years ago

    Yes, I will agree on that one if now and then presidents are using God's name to assuage tensions and uprisings here and there. Some people will view that as coming across as weak. Presidents should be able to hold the bull b ...
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  • MANNY. London 10 years ago

    Kofi thanks for coming out to condemn the president for his persistent use of God's name to confuse ghanaians any time he mounts a podium around the country.This president wants to use God's name to camouflage all the evil de ...
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  • JOHNSON 10 years ago

    IF WE INVOKE THE ASSUMPTION THAT ANYTHING WE DO NOT SEE, DOES NOT EXIST, WE ASK THE QUESTION, "DOES GOD EXIST?". SOME PEOPLE CLAIM GOD IS A SPIRIT. HOW DID THEY KNOW THAT GOD IS A SPIRIT. AS FOR THE BIBLE, IT SHOULD BE DISMIS ...
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  • Prof Lungu 10 years ago

    Another strong critical mind at work!

    Being not inclined to call anyone "His/Her Excellency," we are even less inclined to call Mr. Mahama "His Godliness! (But, with this drift, Mr. Mahama probably would prefer that, if he ...
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  • EZEKIEL 10 years ago

    God doesn't ordain presidents .It is rather the ELIGIBLE VOTERS who do !!
    Even the Pope is NOT elected by God.It is the cardinals who do.