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Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Madam Charlotte Osei, has earnestly called on God to let His will in the upcoming general elections prevail.

At the monthly prayer session organised by the Women’s Aglow Ministry to seek God’s intervention for peaceful and violence-free election, the EC Chair prayed for the safety of electoral commission officials and electoral materials and prayed against any destructive abuse of social media.

The event was captured by Church of Pentecost's TV channel, Pent TV.

Asking God for divine protection for all politicians, the security agencies and all stakeholders in the December 7 elections, she beseeched; “when the enemies rise to destroy the beauty of the electoral process, frustrate their efforts and let us have a nation where the righteous will rule”.

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Hundreds of women gathered at the forecourt of Parliament House in Accra last Saturday to offer special prayers for the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), and five officials of the commission who graced the event.

Led by its National Prayer Director, Mrs Gifty Affenyi-Dadzie, the group offered intercessory prayers for the country and called on God to strengthen all stakeholders in the electoral process to make them act responsibly in the discharge of their duties.

Prayer for EC Chairperson

The spirit-filled congregants directed their prayer at Mrs Osei, calling on God to give her the courage to be strong in applying the electoral rules in a fair, firm and transparent manner in the interest of national unity.

Mrs Affenyi-Dadzie, drawing inspiration from the Bible, urged the EC not to be intimidated by individuals and groups who might want to mar the electoral process.

She, however, asked the electoral body to put its house in order to ensure that all temporary staff recruited to assist it at various levels did not corrupt the efficiency of the electoral process.

In a charged and electrifying atmosphere, a pot was broken to symbolically signify the divine intervention of God in all matters relating to violence, bloodshed and death that might arise in the course of the elections.

Amid the tooting of animal horns, the leadership of the group, joined by the gathering, sprinkled “special water” on the grounds of the event to indicate that the country would witness peace after the December 7 polls.

“By breaking this pot and engaging in other spiritual exercises, we disorganise all forms of organised plans to perpetrate mayhem during the elections; we break every yoke of misunderstanding and abort all evil plans against the EC and the sanctity of the electoral process,” Mrs Afenyi-Dadzie declared.