“Now for the match which will happen tonight between Brazil and Argentina, Brazil will win. Argentina will not win, Messi is part of Argentina, he is a great footballer but the night is not for them, the night is for Brazil and Brazil will win this cup. That is what the spirit of the Lord has revealed to me,” he said.
Unfortunately for Kobi, Argentina beat Brazil 1–0 and won the cup.
Kobi hasn’t justified his prediction, which came after he incorrectly forecasted that Brazil would defeat Argentina in the Copa America tournament.
“Now for the match which will happen tonight between Brazil and Argentina, Brazil will win. Argentina will not win. [Lionel] Messi is part of Argentina, he is a great footballer but the night is not for them, the night is for Brazil and Brazil will win this cup. That is what the spirit of the Lord has revealed to me,” he said then.
Argentina beat Brazil 1–0 and won the cup.
Patrick Kwarten Sprong, an outspoken member of the New Patriotic Party — which Kobi has pilloried with incorrect prophecies — appealed to the Christian Council of Ghana to ban the preacher from playing the oracle in the future.
Sprong’s letter to the council was a laundry list of Kobi’s bad predictions.
“He said that John Mahama would win the 2016 elections. Of course, he lost,” Sprong wrote. “In fact, he even said Akufo-Addo was cursed and not destined to become a president of Ghana. Afuko Addo is Ghana’s president for the second time running,”
Sprong wrote that in 2020, the self-proclaimed prophet predicted Donald Trump would win re-election and that Mahama would win the 2020 Ghana elections. Both men lost.
“Stop Badu Kobi from prophesying and showcasing them on television and Facebook. YouTube too, stop him from sending his fake prophecies there. I ask this with sadness crawling over me like ants climbing over a dead animal and feasting on its body,” Sprong wrote.
Kobi wrote July 12 on Facebook that he will respond to critics on July 18. He asked the news media to leave him alone until then, because he is “focused on changing lives.”
(Edited by Izzy Angeli and Kristen Butler)
