My article last week titled “Akuffo Addo reloading Atta Mills” received a huge support. But it had two issues. First, it became debatable that Dr. Edward Omari Boamah is the first medical student to have contested the NUGS presidency.
I still debate it, so I will not offer any corrections yet. Arthur Kennedy, my checks shows, that he was a science student, not a medical student at the time he contested the NUGS presidency.
Second, the person who regretted not helping the Musician Sarkodie is KK Fosu, not Dada KD. I have checked, and I have found that I was wrong, so please amend your records accordingly.
Do you remember that Bishop Obinnim has said he turns into animals and objects when he enters into the spiritual realm?
This assertion nearly broke the internet. For a man of God to turn into goats, dogs, snakes, tigers, and spiritually enter women’s bedrooms in the night, alongside Jesus Christ, is as frightening as it is threatening. I’m sure Jesus Himself will be envious of such a human feat.
The British High Commissioner to Ghana, Jon Benjamin, is reported to have on several occasions challenged Obinnim’s claims. First Jon has asked Obinnim to transform into snake on live television.
Second Obinnim was refused a British visa, and was challenged to transform into a bird in order to fly to UK, and when Obinnim’s television was closed down, the British High Commissioner is reported to have challenged Obinnim to “Appear on ‘Animal’ Channel Discovery TV”.
Like Jon Benjamin, I have never believed anything Obinnim has claimed to be capable of doing.
I once saw a video of Obinnim stomping on a pregnant woman, ostensibly to exorcise her of some witchcraft, and I thought he should have been arrested. I have seen him lay prostrate on a married woman in his bid to heal her.
I have seen him give some extremist prophesies. I have never believed any of them.
But I will also not condemn him. Society has and continues to create despondency. We continue to create poverty, and hopelessness.
Our health system delivers poor hope for healing. Unemployment is a plague. Fish continuous to elude our fishermen while our farmers yield continue to dwindle due to unpredictable weather conditions.
Our educational system continues to create oceans of ignorance. The education system, which is supposed to help create hope, rather leaves its victims desperate, vulnerable and as survivors.
The human quest to alleviate himself from pains, diseases, poverty, and fear therefore drives us to seek help wherever we are promised, especially if we have failed as a country to offer such hope for our people.
Obinnim and his likes of pastors have stepped into the space created by the failure of the system to help her people, and are offering hope, at least psychologically dealing with (or exploiting) the pains afflicting those neglected by the state.
It is believed that Obinim has tens of thousands of followers across country. What will make all these people follow him if they see nothing good in him?
What exactly is Obinnim doing right which we could apply to our circumstances?
As young people we complete the university and we are looking for employment in government agencies, and companies established by pioneers.
Sometimes our approach to looking for jobs suggests that all we are looking for is money, not jobs. Many young graduates parade their certificates looking for employment, without demonstrating employability, without demonstrating value-added personalities, and without demonstrating entrepreneurship.
But anyone who employs you without seeing entrepreneurship in you is only giving you food. He is only having sympathy on you. He does not wish to offer you the job. Employers look for job creators.
They are looking for people who add value to the roles they are giving, people who make something out of nothing.
Bishop Obinnim does not have any good educational qualifications. Yet he is demonstrating agility, he is in a stand-off with himself, and he is one of a few pastors that are honest with the exploitation of Christianity.
He is marketing himself to his chosen constituents in a manner that other people see as negative. But he is being honest with himself.
That is what entrepreneurship is all about. That is what employers look for. Honest people, even if you don’t agree with him, he does not care about your disagreement. He is being honest with his dishonesty!
Obinnim is reported to have justified a sexual affair with his junior pastor’s wife. He revealed in an interview with Deloris Frimpong Manso that the affair he had with the wife of his junior pastor “was in God's plans for that to happen because it made his church members realize he was a human being, thus breaking the perception that he was an angel due to the miracles he was able to perform in church”.
You see why many more people will follow him? How many more pastors don’t have affairs with their married congregation members?
But how many will be bold enough to confront it publicly, and have such clever answers to justify their actions? Huge pastors in this country have many more affairs, but publicly feign piety.
Obinnim has strong believe in his mind, he believes in his confused mind, he believes in his disorganized approach, and believes in the lies he is reported to be telling his followers, and it is working for him!
I speak especially to my young readers, those struggling to put their future into perspective, that it is ok to be confused. It is ok to change your mind about what you wish to do.
It is ok to start something without having a plan. It is ok to be disorganized. Everything is ok, provided that all these okness comes with passion, energy and never-giving-up spirit.
There is no such thing as bad situation. The only bad situation is death in oneself, physical death and death to ambition.
Once you remain alive to your life, once you are alive to your ambitions, if you don’t give up, you will live through the confusion and emerge as a fine testimony of your own character.
Pulse reports that “Obinnim is quick tempered, and he has admitted to it, saying it is part of human life. He has explained that he is quick tempered and he does not want to change it because he owes much of his success to being quick tempered. He also added that even if God tells him He wants to change his temperament, he would ask God to leave it”.
You see how honest and faithful the guy is? Faithful to his believes, and obviously not copying anyone, blazing his own trail, and doing the things he believes in. Provided nothing he does is illegal, he is on winning ways.
It has been reported that our former president, Jerry John Rawlings, has called Bishop Obinnim fake.
But that is exactly the point, and that is exactly the platform Obinnim is seeking to have, in order to sustain himself in the eyes of the storm.
So Obinnim, here too, has succeeded, getting a whole former president to comment on him, getting a whole high commissioner to comment on him, getting Christian Council to comment on what he does.
He needs those platforms to rally his followers to his defense, and get them defiant, and he gets exactly that.
Please note that I have said I don’t believe anything Obinnim does. I am a Methodist, and I believe in God too.
I’m only sharing with you what is making Obinnim unstoppable, and if he does not grow weak in the things that he believes in, then he remains unstoppable, and those are the virtues I will wish for my children, and I will wish for every young person to hold and to keep.
Self believe is a strong requirement for influence and prosperity. It makes you do the unthinkable. It makes you do things never seen, and that gets people talking about you, some negative, others positive.
No matter what you do, some will love others will hate. Your interest should not be in the negatives brought to bear on your morale, but on the conviction and faith that grows your energy.
The power of influence is a skill that everyone must have. It comes in various shapes and forms, and at different stages.
But it does not come without effort. Influence must have legitimacy. It requires consistent enduring effort at doing something repeatedly well, well enough to gain traction with your chosen audience.
Like myself, you may not believe in anything Obinnim does, but there may well be some good lessons to learn from his winning ways.
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