The Methodist Church has dissociated itself from comments made by one of its bishops, Rt. Rev Stephen Bosomtwe Ayensu, who said that former President John Dramani Mahama. can not win power in 2024 to cancel the e-levy.
According to the Church, they remain unaligned to any political party and the comments of their ministers and members “cannot be taken as the official position of the Church.”
John Mahama, while addressing the nation on the theme ‘Ghana at the crossroads’, described the e-levy as a burdensome tax that he would repeal should he be elected as president come 2024.
But Bishop Ayensu is on record to have said that former President Mahama cannot become president again let alone deliver on his promise of repealing the e-levy.
The bishop’s comments have attracted some backlash from the public, especially from members of the National Democratic Congress.
One of such persons is Member of Parliament for Adaklu, Governs Kwame Agbodza, who called on the Methodist Church to distance itself from such comments, which he described as ‘pure partisan politics’.
In a December 10 statement, the Methodist Church appealed to “our noble friends of the media not to draw the name of the Methodist Church Ghana into the alleged statements made by the past Bishop.”
Methodist Church statement on Mahama
Though the church admitted that Bishop Ayensu is their official spokesperson, they however his comments should not be accepted as the Church’s official position.
