God cannot lie! Konadu won! - Prophet insists

Prophet Segbene Xenodzi

Segbene Xenodzi, the man who prophesied that God had ordained former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings to win the flagbearer mandate of the ruling National Democratic Congress in Sunyani and put his life on the line should the prophecy fail, insists Nana Konadu won in spite of the heavy trashing she was handed by President John Mills.

Prophet Segbene Xenodzi actually swore to kill himself if Nana Konadu lost the race to lead the NDC at the party's national delegates' congress in Sunyani.

The election, as declared by the Electoral Commission, saw President John Evans Atta Mills winning by a landslide.

The president polled a massive 2,771 votes, representing 96.9 per cent of a total of 2,861 valid votes cast as against 90 votes or 3.1 per cent for Konadu. But Prophet Xenodzi maintains that the outcome was a stolen verdict.

'She has won wonderfully but the NDC is so intelligent, NDC is a great party, you understand, so they have a way of uniting themselves, OK. So after she has won, they met and then turned the whole thing and put a different result out,' he told Joy News.

Prophet Xenodzi had, in his pre-congress prophecy, even added that Mrs. Rawlings was to proceed from the party victory to win the presiedncy of Ghana after the 2012 elections.

Asked if he really intends killing himself as per his vow, Prophet Xenodzi rather gave a good laugh, tried to explain himself and maintained 'I am telling you Nana Konadu has won. The truth of the result itself would be declared [later].'

Per congress arrangements the vanquished in the race was to address delegates and pat the winner, however Nana Konadu was already on her way out of the Sunyani Coronation Park immediately the results were declared and as his husband and key supporter, former President Jerry Rawlings momentarily lifted President Mills' arm in victory.

With the concession speech not forthcoming, President Mills went ahead to deliver his victory speech, an act Prophet Xenodzi smartly pointed out: 'Did they say the winner would be the one to speak first or the loser would be the one to speak first? …God cannot lie.'