The Chairman of the Church of Pentecost (COP), Apostle Eric Nyamekye, has appealed to Ghanaians not to turn the upcoming general election into a religious battle.
Rather, the contest, he said, should be based on issues geared towards an improvement in the lives of Ghanaians. He said for instance, Christians and Muslims had lived peacefully, so the election should not be used to divide Ghanaians.
“This election is a bit different from the past because of the fact that there is a Muslim who is standing and there is a Christian contesting. “We don’t want it to be a religious battle and so as a church we are mindful, and we are going to educate our members not to turn this election into a religious kind of battle,” he said.
Meeting
Apostle Nyamekye said this on the sidelines of the opening of the 18th Extraordinary Council Meeting of the COP at the Pentecost Convention Centre (PCC) at Gomoa Fetteh in the Central Region last Wednesday.
The three-day event is on the theme: “A People of God Unleashed to Transform Their World”. Apostle Nyamekye indicated that the church would be going round, as it did in the past, to campaign for peace.
This year, he said, such a campaign would be intensified, looking at the crucial nature of the elections, so that the country would remain peaceful before, during and after the polls.
In the last elections, he said, some persons lost their lives and, “we don’t want that to happen again. No Ghanaian should die for someone to become a president or a Member of Parliament”.
He added that the church would supervise the elections in areas that it could.
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