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Somewhere in the Sacred Scriptures the Good Lord said that if we have a faith as small as a mustard seed, we could perform wonders.

Almost two thousand years on, we have situations where such grace cannot be made manifest in the life of, perhaps, the most important person in society, the politician.

Every election season, we have two groups of citizens lined up facing each other. On one side we have the political candidates in the elections and their close associates, and on the other we have leaders of faith communities. Each side makes themselves very attractive to be called by the other.

While the politician is so eager to win the elections, and so will do anything at all to be victorious, the leaders of the faith communities are so eager to reap where they never sowed, because there are people who have created the opportunity for easy pay day.

No matter how tough they look, most politicians are very vulnerable whenever they enter a contest. They will seek paths their faith may not allow, and hope that the Good Lord above will forgive them and reward them for their hard works and innovations.

They become easy prey to the leaders of the faith-based communities, and voluntarily fall into their traps.

On the Christian side, we have some leaders of the unit-churches who want everybody to know and accept that they are playmates of our Lord Jesus, and also they always spend their weekends and holidays in Heaven. In fact, they are even privy to God’s personal decisions on the fate of this or the other politician in the elections, since His secretaries who type His memos to Heaven’s Cabinet reveal the confidential reports to them.

But even though God has ordained that this or that candidate is to win the elections, there is the need for the politician to pay them a visit, and from thence, the showers of blessings and promises will fall on them in abundance. Failure to visit these men or women of God, and make the mandated offering, would make them lose the election.

Some Islamic clerics will also read the cosmos and notice the star of this or the other candidate rising above all else in the contest. However, some trips must be made beyond the shores of this country to reinforce what Allah has already ordained.

The traditionalist will also not be left out here. They actually dwell, most of the time, in the spiritual realm, and see all the demons that are making fruitless efforts to steal the candidate’s victory away. The politician’s angel is putting up a furious fight to protect what belongs to him or her. There is the need to do something about this, and those requirements can be many: something for cola (cost of living allowance) for the gods; some fat cow which must be buried alive; some sheep, goats and fowls all in the favourite colors of the chief god or goddess; the need to bathe naked in the middle of a junction at midnight; do an all-night prayer session in an old cemetery; consuming, as in eating and swallowing, things which will never make the menu list of an insane person.

Shaking his waist and shouting in strange tongues is the juju man dancing in his fetish shrine.

The vulnerable politician, whose sole ambition is to win the election, may fall into such traps set by the Christian spiritualist, the Islamic Mallam, and the occultist. Monies spent in fulfilling the requirements made by these leaders of these faith-based groups could have gone a long way to win at least 10,000 votes.

These funds rather find themselves in individuals’ pockets. Individuals who know they just have no spiritual clue about the winners of the election, except from the physical opinion polls ratings that change daily at the market square and drinking bars.

Why they always only deal with the frontrunners in the race should make people see through them and know that nothing spiritual is revealed to them. They are only gambling in picking a horse which could, or could not win the race. If that candidate wins, they automatically become their spiritual directors, and the only liaison between man and God, or man and gods. Regular pacifications of the Spiritual Being and lesser spirits must be done, if victory must be sustained, and the candidate continues to win till he or she decides enough.

Why some politicians become so hooked on such tricks makes one wonder. And even when those prophesies fail to materialise, those faith leaders would either fade into the shadows and be nowhere to be found again, or they will come out with some convincing reason as to whatever went wrong.

But, of course, all went wrong in the beginning, for if one chooses to leave the faith he or she belongs to and go looking for God in so many and all wrong places, what do you expect to be the result?

Ghanaians will never learn; for decades ago, a certain woman of God claimed that God has directed us to invest the Holy Trinity into our governance structure, with a union government, which has the forces at the head as God the Father; the professionals come next as God the Son, and the rest of us last as God the Holy Spirit. This prophecy failed to come to pass. And also, when Jerry John Rawlings was first inaugurated into office as the first President of the FOURTH REPUBLIC, a certain man of God prophesied loudly that Rawlings was going to rule forever. So what happened to our Constitution?

As campaigning for the elections has reached the final stretch, fake men and women of faith are up and prophesying in the Name of God, that this or the other candidate would win. Strangely, no single candidate has been endorsed by their God, but multiple numbers of candidates have been favoured by God to win and be elected into one office.

This should tell all candidates, since God speaks but once, and picks only one leader, even if they have faith the size of an elephant, their chances of winning is never guaranteed. Only hard work and dedication, and submission to God could make them win. They should stop following those humans who do not fear to use God’s Name in vain.