Christian leaders in Kwahu have expressed mixed feelings about the recent Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church’s petition to the Attorney General and Electoral Commission to consider changing this year’s Presidential and Parliamentary elections date from December 7th to the second Tuesday of November.
Speaking to our correspondent, Nana Kwame Andoh on their views on the matter, the Parish Priest of the Nkawkaw Anglican Church and President of the Local Council of Churches, Rev. Canon Roger Mate-Kodjo said, he believed that the SDA Church had a case and therefore called for a wholistic approach in the consideration of the petition, citing the need to ensure an all-inclusive factor in legitimizing a clear winner in the coming elections.
On his part, the General Overseer of the True Faith Evangelical Church, Senior Apostle Moses Appah, also indicated that the True Faith Evangelical Church and all other Sabbath-day-related churches are in support of the petition and will all follow up with their supporting petitions soon in other for the nation to consider the situation where no one will be disenfranchised in this year’s general elections.
The General Overseer further noted that the EC itself has acted in several ways aside from the permitted mandate that has not been considered against its constitution such as the failure to use indelible inks and the decision to use two separate days for the just-ended District Assembly elections, and therefore should be able to give some kind of regard to the current petition.
However, Prophet Yaw Boamah, the founder and leader of the Power From Jesus Healing Church at Nkawkaw had a different view and quoted the Bible in the gospel of Mathew where disciples of Jesus Christ harvested maize on a Sabbath day and yet were justified by Jesus as an example that, sacrificing one Sabbath day for a national assignment could not be an offence before God.
He appealed to the SDA Church to retract their petition.
Source: Oyerepafmonline.com/ Nana Kwame Andoh
