According to Bempah, Rawlings posed a probing question to him before passing away, seeking his opinion on whether Mahama would ever return to power.

Bempah recounted: "Former President Rawlings, almost one to two months before his death, told me that Mahama will never be President of this country… Rawlings!

For someone dead, I can never say anything that is not true about him." He shared this revelation while speaking on Onua FM.

John Dramani Mahama, a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), first became President in 2012 following the sudden death of President John Evans Atta Mills.