The Ashanti Regional Chairman of Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), Kofi Owusu Omar has praised Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia for giving back to the Muslim community a mosque and bashed hi political opponent, Mr. John Mahama for promising to build the same community, mortuaries.
Speaking on the Wontumi Morning Show which was monitored by Wontumionline.com, Mr. Owusu Omar was grateful for the gesture shown by the vice President noting that it would go a long way to increase the votes he receives from Muslims in Ghana.
Vice President Bawumia was recently in Kumasi for the commissioning and handing over of the Kumasi Central Mosque.
Dr. Bawumia funded the reconstruction of the iconic mosque to an ultra-modern complex with expanded capacity from 4000 to 7000 as well as the provision of office complexes for Imams and Zongo Chiefs, a conference room, among other facilities.
Present at the ceremony was the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Ministers of State, MPs, the National Chief Imam, Regional Imams, Members of the Diplomatic Corp and a large number of Muslims.
In the run up to the 2020 general elections, then presidential candidate for the National Democratic Congress and a former President, Mr. John Dramani Mahama, promised to build mortuaries for Muslims if he had won the elections.