Presby Moderator Denies Describing Dr Bawumia As A “Religious Unifier”

The Presbyterian Church of Ghana has denied that the outgoing Moderator of the church, Rt Rev. Prof. Joseph Obiri Yeboah Mante, has described the Vice-President, Dr Mahamadu Bawumia, as a “religious unifier”.

It said while Rt. Tev. Prof. Mante would have no problems describing anyone in the terms he deemed appropriate, “the records must be set straight that on Sunday he did not make that statement”.

A statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of the church, Rev George E. Larbi, and issued in Accra on Tuesday [August 22, 2023] said “the attention of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) has been drawn to an article going viral on social media and some news portals”.

The story, the statement said, had claimed that the outgoing Moderator of the church had extolled Dr Bawumia’s religious tolerance attitude, and described him as a unifying character of Islam and Christianity.

“These are the things that the Moderator said. Please, kindly take the Moderator out of this unfruitful partisan politics,” the statement added.