Aide to the NPP flagbearer, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, has urged Ghanaians to exercise discernment when dealing with political prophecies.
He insists that not every spiritual declaration should be treated as divine truth.
“I am a Jesus-believing Christian. I believe in miracles,” he said. “I still believe that the miracles that we read in the Bible do still happen, and I so strongly believe that God still speaks to his people through prophets.”
Speaking on Channel One TV on Sunday, Mr Aboagye said belief in prophecy must be balanced with wisdom and spiritual discernment.
“I also believe in the Bible that tells me that there are false prophets and there are true prophets,” he said.
“The Bible says that we should always pray for discernment to be able to decipher between the false prophets and the true prophet.”
His comments come against the backdrop of intense prophetic declarations that marked the New Patriotic Party’s flagbearer contest.
Dr Mahamudu Bawumia was declared the winner by the Electoral Commission after securing 56.48 per cent of the total votes cast, earning him the party’s flagbearer slot for the 2028 general elections.
His closest contender, former Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyapong, placed second with 46,554 votes, representing 23.76 per cent.
Throughout the campaign period, several prophecies and spiritual pronouncements emerged, predicting different outcomes of the contest.
Mr Aboagye said his faith does not permit him to attack religious leaders who make such claims.
“That is why I do not speak against any prophet, because I wasn’t there when God was speaking to them,” he said.
“When prophets speak, I listen, but I also pray to God, and I always knew that some of the prophets were right and some were wrong.”
He stressed that incorrect prophecies do not automatically disqualify a person from being a genuine man of God.
“My Bible does not tell me to call out men of God,” he said. “Sometimes God even decides to punish his own people for some misconduct.”
“There are several examples in the Bible where God punished his own children,” he added. Mr Aboagye suggested that even genuine prophets could err at times.
“There may be a prophet who really, truly sees and hears from God, but maybe in this particular instance, he may have offended God,” he said.
“That doesn’t mean that maybe he didn’t even hear anything, but maybe he heard the false voices, but others also heard the true voice.”
He pointed out that some prophecies during the contest were accurate. “There are prophets who predicted right that Dr Bawumia would win, and he has won,” he said.
Despite this, he cautioned against rushing to make public declarations without clear divine instruction.
“My advocacy and my admonishment to the men of God is that, please, if you know God has not spoken to you, and even that, if God doesn’t tell you to go and announce, yeah, rushing to announce him,” he said.
He explained that biblical prophecy often comes with clear guidance on when and how to speak. “When God gives you the prophecy, he has instructions,” he said.
“There are days that these prophets would also pray to God, and God will simply reveal to them what the issues are, without necessarily giving them instructions to go and tell.”
Mr Aboagye warned that when prophecy becomes mixed with excessive human action, credibility suffers.
“When God speaks to you, and now, after saying what God has told you, you even begin to do more of the physical work than miracles, then there is a problem,” he said.
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