A Deputy National Communications Officer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ernest Owusu-Bempah, has revealed that the late former president, Jerry John Rawlings, expressed strong doubts about John Dramani Mahama’s chances of ever becoming president again. According to Owusu-Bempah, Rawlings shared this sentiment with him just months before his passing.

In a video shared by Onua FM on X, Owusu-Bempah recounted being invited by the former president for a private conversation.

He said, “Former President Rawlings, two to three months before his death, told me that Mahama will never be president of this country. Rawlings, and I’m saying it. I can’t sit here and say what I don’t know about a dead person. Never, because he is my father.”

He further said “One afternoon, I was in Ghana Gas and he sent for me and I went. One afternoon; it was about 4:15. He asked me - he usually ask me what is going on in the country, the grassroots. He asked, do you believe Mahama will ever be the president of this country again? Due to what Mahama has done, his personality, and what Rawlings said behind the scenes which I cannot say here, He Rawlings didn’t believe that John Mahama can ever become president ever again in Ghana. I am telling you, I, Owusu-Bempah, everybody knows I was very close to the former president. It was between me and him.”

These revelations follow a prophecy by Rev. Isaac Owusu-Bempah, Founder and Leader of Glorious Word Power Ministry International, during a meeting organized by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, on October 1, 2024. During the event, titled “Mahama Fellowships with Clergy,” Rev. Owusu-Bempah prophesied that God had placed the future of Ghana in Mahama’s hands, owing to his good heart.

“When the prayers were ongoing, the Lord revealed to me that because of Mahama’s good heart, He has entrusted the country to him once more. Nothing can stop this,” Rev. Owusu-Bempah declared.