I've not described myself as a Messiah; only Jesus Christ is the Messiah - Spio-Garbrah

An aspiring presidential candidate seeking to lead the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in 2020, Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, has refuted claims of being the ‘Messiah’ of the party.

The aspiring candidate told Rainbow Radio87.5FM that, he has never said anywhere that he "is the Messiah’’ of the umbrella family.

Dr. Spio-Garbrah in an exclusive interview yesterday [Monday] indicated that, only Jesus Christ was and would continue to be the Messiah of the world.

"I never used the word Messiah in my entire life. I am not worthy to be called the Messiah because it was only Jesus Christ who was the Messiah. We are all sinners and so we cannot refer to ourselves as Messiahs.’’

The Publisher newspaper in its Monday’s edition published that, the aspiring candidate described himself as the Messiah of NDC but Dr. Spio-Garbrah says he never used the word and it was the editor of the paper who made us of the word. He also disclosed that after confronting the editor, he explained to him that, he chose the word Messiah because he [Editor] felt the responses given by him [Dr. Spio-Garbrah] made him look like the Messiah.

"I have worked in the church and served as Chief of Staff at the Action Chapel and I can confidently state that, not even Bishops can use the word Messiah to describe themselves.’’

The presidential candidate hopeful reiterated his desire to pursue his seven point agenda to strengthen the grassroots’.

The seven-point agenda are:

1. As president, spend one afternoon each week at Party headquarters

2. Create welfare committees at national, regional and constituency levels

3. Strengthen the women’s wing

4. Assist youth with education and skills training

5. Help build offices for all constituencies

6. Create national and regional business development committees

7. Create an NDC credit union Mr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, will be competing against former president John Dramani Mahama, Vice-Chancellor of the University for Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), Prof. Joshua Alabi; former CEO of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Sylvester Mensah, Cape Coast South MP, Kweku Ricketts-Hagan; private legal practitioner Elikplim Agbamava and handyman Stephen Atubiga.