‘I Didn’t Speak As A Ghanaian Under Mahama; I Spoke As Peace Council Chair’ – Rev. Asante

Methodist cleric Emmanuel Asante has explained that he spoke on national issues during the Mahama administration because he had locus as the Chairman of the National Peace Council.

As such, he said every comment he made, at that time, was not in his individual capacity.

“I wasn’t speaking in my capacity as a Ghanaian then [during the Mahama administration]”, he told popular NDC serial caller Appiah Stadium, who recently confronted the man God at a funeral ground and accused him of hypocrisy, owing to his silence on national issues under the Akufo-Addo administration.

Rev Prof Asante then clarified: “I’m not [Rev Dr] Asante-Antwi”, as his interlocutor and accuser had mistaken him for.

The confrontation, which was captured on video, first showed Appiah Stadium walking to Rev Prof Asante, exchanging pleasantries with him and then nicely inquiring from the cleric about why he had suddenly lost his voice on national issues now that Mr Mahama was no longer the president of Ghana.

Rev Prof Asante managed to put on a smile while explaining to the politician that he no more had the platform of the National Peace Council to do so.

Appiah Stadium then asked Rev Prof Asante if he was no more a Ghanaian, as well.

He then pointed out to the cleric that the cost of a one-hour flight of President Akufo-Addo alone can build a whole school block, contrasting that with the situation under former President John Mahama, who, he said, never embarked on such luxurious trips.

He followed up by asking the man of God: “Are you sure you are not a hypocrite?”

A riled Rev Prof Asante then parried the hypocrisy charge levelled against him, saying: “I’m not a hypocrite”, and then lunged at Appiah Stadium thus: “You’re the hypocrite”, explaining: “So far as you do your bidding, I will not do your kind of politics”.

The recriminations continued between the two men, with each of them aggressively pointing accusing fingers at the other, as they parted company amidst a dispersing crowd of mourners at a funeral ground.

Appiah Stadium told the Rev Prof Asante that God would, one day, question him on his silence, to which the cleric retorted: “God will judge you more than me”, adding angrily: “He [God] will cut off your head”.

Appiah Stadium would have the last word, responding: “He [God] will slash your stomach; liar!”