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The National Women�s Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Anita De Sousou, has vehemently denied rumours that she and her party General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, on Wednesday stormed the grounds of the dreaded �Antoa Nyama� river deity in Kumasi to pacify the gods. Wild rumours circulating in Kumasi, the Ashanti regional capital, and other parts of the country, since Wednesday afternoon, indicated that Anita and Asiedu Nketia were sighted at the grounds of the Antoa Nyama river deity for unknown reasons. Curious people living at Antoa and the nearby communities reportedly rushed to the premises of the dreaded river goddess in large numbers, ostensibly to catch a glimpse of the two leading NDC officials and find out about their mission at the grounds. The issue was immediately broadcasted on several radio stations in the Garden City and beyond. Several people who claimed to have sighted the two NDC top guns at the shrine also gave their accounts on radio, but Daily Guide could not confirm the authenticity of the speculations. Reacting to the issue on Ash FM in an interview with Lord Innusah, Anita De Sousou flatly denied ever storming the grounds of the dreaded Antoa deity with the NDC scribe, telling the public to treat the news with contempt. It would be recalled that some agitated women in Kumasi, who are of the view that the 2012 general election was rigged in favour of President John Dramani Mahama of the NDC, openly invoked river deities to deal ruthlessly with anyone was involved in the alleged rigging. Some of the women, who were of the view that Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, presidential candidate of the NPP, was the winner of the elections, were seen dragging their buttocks on the ground as they murmured some curses, days after president Mahama was declared winner of the polls. Daily Guide could not confirm if the two leading NDC officials alleged secret visit to the dreaded Antoa river deity had anything to do with the countless curses in the Ashanti Region which followed the elections.