Former President John Dramani Mahama has responded to claims by controversial pastor, Rev. Owusu Bempah that there is a plot to assassinate president Akufo-Addo and his vice, Dr Bawumia.

The founder of Glorious Word Power Ministry International in an interview on Oman FM alleged that Mr. Mahama along with some members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) are plotting to eliminate the president and the vice president.

He added that the New Patriotic Party’s Ashanti Regional Chairman Mr Bernard Antwi Boasiako (Chairman Wontumi), Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyapong as well as the cleric himself are also targets of the alleged plot.

In a sharp rebuttal, the flag bearer of the NDC through his aide, Joyce Bawa Mogtari, issued a statement on Thursday, 14 March 2019 describing the claims as "false" and an "imaginations of a warped mind and effusions of a politically-tainted founder of a church who would say and do anything to attract attention to himself”.

Mr. Mahama in the statement said: “As a known surrogate of the Akufo-Addo government,” Rev Owusu Bempah’s statements are clearly calculated “to distract the attention of the suffering masses of Ghana from the mounting issues of bad governance, corruption, insecurity, hardship and dishonesty.”
The statement added that the former president will not be distracted by the “deliberately planned and concocted stories to keep afloat a scandal-mongering campaign against him by the ruling party.”

Below is the full statement:

The attention of former President John Dramani Mahama has been drawn to claims made by a certain Pastor Owusu Bempah on Oman FM on 7thMarch, 2019 accusing the former president of planning to commit a crime.

In direct response to the said accusations, I am directed by Mr. Mahama to state that the claims of the said pastor are false. They remain imaginations of a warped mind and effusions of a politically-tainted founder of a church who would say and do anything to attract attention to himself.

As a known surrogate of the Akufo-Addo government, the said Owusu Bempah’s statements are clearly calculated to distract the attention of the suffering masses of Ghana from the mounting issues of bad governance, corruption, insecurity, hardship and dishonesty.

It is disgraceful that someone who claims to be a prophet of God would readily agree to be used to broadcast lies emanating from a vivid imagination instead of preaching the word of God. Never in the entire account of the bible has there been any anointed prophet of God who only praises a king and turns a blind eye to the evils committed in his reign.

Mr. Mahama would also like to take this opportunity to assure the good people of Ghana that he remains the peaceful, focused, people-loving, and gentle politician that he has always been.

He will not be distracted by the deliberately planned and concocted stories to keep afloat a scandal-mongering campaign against him by the ruling party.

SIGNED

Joyce Bawah Mogtari

Special Aide

March 14, 2019