Ghana Decides: Muslim who Genuinely Smiles and a Christian who Genuinely lies
On Saturday, Ghanaians will decide on who should be our next president. The predominant Christian 71.3% population of Ghana, given the choice between a minority Muslim and a predominant Christian. Ranking high among the leading presidential candidates is the Muslim Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia and the Christian John Mahama.
Between the two, the Christian must make a choice between Bawumia who genuinely smiles as proof of his good intentions for Ghana and Mahamawho is on social media, genuinely lying and glorifying lies.
But before that happens, the Gong-Gong will wish to draw attention of all Christians that a blanket decision of choosing a Christian over a Muslim may never be the will of God. The impression that only Christians can go to Heaven is very wrong. For all beings were and are created by God who desires that every soul should return to Him in Heaven, irrespective of their race, sex and religion so long as they seek and act on the Truth.
Further on, if indeed only Christians go to Heaven, then what about Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and David? They were not Christians, because when they lived, Christ had not come to walk this earth.Most importantly, what about our ancestors who lived very good lives and knew nothing about Jesus Christ because at that time, Christianity had not arrived on our shores?
Christians who hold the belief that Muslims cannot be president as hammered upon by NDC’s FifiKwetey, must know that four times, they voted into office, Muslim vice-presidents. Which means that inwardly, Christians accepted that a Muslim can be president.
Aside from this, some great Muslims have helped this country in many departments including sports, Sulley Muntari and businessman, Alhaji Banda. They did that with the success of the nation in mind and not about their faith. Alhaji Banda’s Antrak Airlines employed Christians and offered good services to all.
Going into Scriptures, we can recount events where the minority or lowly placed are chosen by God and placed in position of leadership and become good leaders.
King David, who was the least among his brothers, is one example. He was the youngest, the tiniest and least endowed. But God chose him to be king over his elegant and presentable brothers.
Christians in Ghana, who believe Muslims must be despised when it comes to who becomes president of Ghana, must refer to 1 Corinthians 1: 28-29, which in summary states that God uses things despised and counted as nothing by the world to bring to nothing what the world considers as important.
Today, Ghana is at a cross road and Christians must know that we have a Muslim, who is endeared to all, especially Christians; a Muslim who has promised that under his administration, the state will organise Christian pilgrimages to holy sites in Israel.
Work must be given to the one who can do it regardless of the person’s status and religion. In 2008, the 75.3% predominant Whites in the US, picked a minority-coloured person, Barak Obama, to lead that nation and re-elected him in 2012, because Obama did a very good job.
In the UK, the opposition Conservatives has chosen a Black of Nigerian descent, Kemi Badenoch, to lead the party to victory in the next election. We are talking about a country with almost 75% pure Whites.The choice of leader should be the one who can do the job and not necessarily the one from the majority.
With a Muslim president in Bawumia, religious tolerance and mutual corporations between the different religions will help enhance economic growth in this country.
When it comes to the Christian, John Dramani Mahama, he is all over social media saying that all it needs to do is to lie and continue lying to Ghanaians because we have short memories. He is glorifying lies and indicating that gullible Ghanaians will certainly vote him, president. And Christians must realise that here is someone from the NDC who claims Bawumia is a liar, but now adoring lies.
The NDC with its leader John Mahama has pledged in a campaign promise to flush out many officers and personnel in the security services, because that party believes, most of Ghana’s security personnel are NPP members or work for the NPP.
In 2009, 400 police personnel were dismissed when the NDC took over governance.
They were said to have been recruited under political consideration. Talking about security personnel recruited into the police and armed forces under political consideration, one need not go far into history.
Between 1981 and 1992, when Rawlings was leader of the PNDC, he had a private army called Commandoes and private police called the Panthers. When he became our constitutional leader, he got them all into the Armed Forces and the Police, without any of them going through the due process.
If President Kufuor had dismissed them all, one can imagine the chaos this country will turn into.Saturday, is the Decision Day, and the Gong-Gong poses this question to Christian voters. Who would you choose, a Muslim who genuinely smiles and a Christian who genuinely lies? Remember that God detest lying lips (Proverbs 12:22). May God guide your thumb.
By Hon Daniel Dugan.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect The Chronicle’s stance
