2024 Election: GUM flagbearer invokes ‘Seven Divine Curses’ against electoral malpractice

The flagbearer and founder of the Ghana Union Movement (GUM), Christian Kwabena Andrews, has delivered a fiery warning against any attempts to disrupt the peace or manipulate the electoral process on election day, invoking seven divine curses on offenders.

Speaking during a press conference at his office in Accra on Sunday, December 1, 2024, he declared that he stood in the name of God to pronounce these curses, emphasizing their severity.

According to him, anyone who violates the sanctity of the electoral process will face dire consequences multiplied tenfold.

“Anyone who tries to cause mayhem, the curse will multiply by ten times, making it seventy-seven times,” he stated.

Christian Kwabena Andrews first addressed those who might tamper with ballot boxes, saying, “God should release a very strong curse on anyone who will temper with ballot boxes by putting in more ballot papers in favour of his or her party. Whether it is a journalist, an electoral officer, a politician, a security officer, or whosoever, may the thunder of God strike the person. Let a car accident locate the person as they step out of the polling station, resulting in death.”

He also warned against voting multiple times, calling it a betrayal of the nation’s progress.

“Anyone who is going to vote for any party more than once, may God enable death to visit him or her together with their generations because they are people who do not have good plans for the country,” he declared.

The GUM leader further condemned the manipulation of votes during counting. He cautioned, “During the counting, anyone who would count GUM votes and add them to another political party's votes, such a person should encounter an accident that will split their flesh into pieces, and they will not be among the living.”

Electoral Commission officials who alter results were not spared.

He stated, “Anyone at the Electoral Commission who wishes or wants to manipulate figures if the number is twenty and they say it is two hundred may such a person fall and decay from head to toe. May almighty God not allow them to get up again, and so shall it be in Jesus' name.”

Addressing members of political parties, he said, “Any member of a political party who will decide that he will not use his life for anything beneficial but rather will be an electoral official and steal for his or her party, may God let disgrace, suffering, and madness fall upon such a person until they rot and die.”

Finally, he directed his anger at politicians who misuse public funds for personal or political gain, declaring, “Any politician who will take the country's money and dash it to the populace it is the country's money they have stolen, not their salary may that person go into a coma, suffer from a stroke, and be blind in Jesus' name.”

Christian Kwabena Andrews concluded his remarks by asserting that if these curses do not manifest against those who attempt to disrupt the election, he would question whether God is truly alive and real in protecting the peace of Ghana.